On 15.01.2015 15:06, jan i wrote: > On 15 January 2015 at 14:58, Branko Čibej <br...@apache.org> wrote: > >> On 15.01.2015 14:45, Dave wrote: >>> This vote: "RC4 as Apache Usergrid 1.0 (incubating) 2014–09–03 2014–09–02 >>> 135 days" was cancelled in an email message titled "[VOTE][CANCELLED] >>> Release RC4 as Apache Usergrid 1.0 (incubating) - CORRECTION" >> The problem here is that the vote tally script does not expect people to >> fiddle with the subject line other than to add a [RESULT] or [CANCEL] or >> [CANCELLED] tag. In the past, I've found quite a few result or >> cancellation messages that also modify the rest of the subject line, or >> even start a completely new thread. Every now and then I go through the >> script's database and fix up results, but ... I'd really have expected >> people to feel less need to fiddle with subject lines. :) >> >> (At one point I tried following in-reply-to headers ... what a mess, >> mail clients these days really have trouble following 20-year-old RFCs.) >> > Does the program have any other method to cancel votes than making an email > ? > (would be kind of nice of IPMC could mark votes like the one from Usergrid, > without extra emails)
Yeah, it would be nice; and the answer is, not yet. It's just a cron job that generates static HTML, running off my account on minotaur. At one time I had this utopian plan for changing the whole thing into a nice webapp, but ... heh. Went the way of all other Utopias. >> And of course, some votes never get a proper resolution mail sent out. >> > Those are the ones we need to catch. Yup. That was the point of trying to automate the whole thing. -- Brane --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
