On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 7:28 AM, Suresh Marru <[email protected]> wrote:
> We don't need to worry for this vote, but in general relying on voter's > statement is not a good idea. An authoritative resource to verify the > binding and non-binding votes is [1]. > [1] - http://people.apache.org/committers-by-project.html#incubator-pmc I agree, but what a pain in the neck. Instead of running votes manually on our mailing lists, I wish that we ran them in a web application. * Votes could be tied to LDAP in order to differentiate binding from non-binding. * Improved mailing list signal-to-noise ratio. * No more confusion as to what is DISCUSS and what is VOTE on a vote thread -- all email replies would be discussion. * Automatic generation of both the email starting the vote and the email announcing the vote result, reducing administrative overhead. No more tedious and error-prone manual tallying and validation! * Vote results could be stored permanently in some kind of database, making apps like Brane's "Incubator Voting Status" more reliable and easier to maintain. (<http://people.apache.org/~brane/incubator/votes.html>) The Incubator runs a lot of votes. If code can be provided, I think it's reasonable to petition for Infra resources to maintain a voting service. Thoughts? Ideally, Apache Steve would power a web voting app. How close is it to providing the features we would need? Marvin Humphrey --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
