Hey Marvin, I started to flesh out a potential REST API for Apache Steve (no code there yet, just ideas). Thoughts and contributions are of course welcome. Alan C. also contributed to this:
https://wiki.apache.org/Steve/SteveRESTAPI Cheers, Chris -----Original Message----- From: Marvin Humphrey <mar...@rectangular.com> Reply-To: "general@incubator.apache.org" <general@incubator.apache.org> Date: Tuesday, September 3, 2013 5:10 PM To: "general@incubator.apache.org" <general@incubator.apache.org> Subject: Re: Web voting >On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 3:32 AM, Christian Grobmeier <grobme...@gmail.com> >wrote: >> Am 03.09.13 12:18, schrieb Tammo van Lessen: >>> I find Loomio [1] looks very promising. It's probably not exactly >>> tailor-made for our decision making progress but it can showcase [2] >>>what >>> is possible and if it can help us. >> >> Looks pretty nice. >> >> Is it a requirement to send individual votes to the ml (like with >>voting on >> releases). > >I would say no -- but the results must be auditable. A final tally >tabulating >all votes cast is a requirement. I also think it would be useful to send >out >email notification that a vote has been cast to the personal email of the >individual who cast it. > >To my mind it's a feature if we can achieve auditability without >individual >emails to the list, as that improves the list's signal-to-noise ratio. > >For auditability's sake, we need to limit those who can vote to a >whitelist. >Code we run on our own servers can hook into LDAP, or maybe even >mailing-list >membership records. What sort of implementation challenges would >whitelisting >present if we use external voting services? > >> in some cases we need secret votes (like with the IPMC chair vote) > >We have acceptable solutions now for all our voting needs, including >secret >votes with Apache Steve. Web voting would be for the sake of making some >votes easier; we don't have to use it all the time. > >> Loomio looks hackable actually. > >AGPL, though. :\ > >Marvin Humphrey > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org >For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
