Terri contacted me before voting was closed, and I connected her with
Stephen Hahn, who runs the voting site. (Her problem involved getting
ssh key login working from MacOS X.)
The only other core contributor who contacted me offline about not being
able to vote was one whose employer blocks ssh at their firewall and who
chose not to use an internet connection from another location to vote
instead, which I'd classify under lack-of-interest more than technical
difficulty.
So far I'm not aware of any other people who have reported being unable
to vote, but I expect most voters to have been using Solaris and to have
unblocked ssh internet access from somewhere.
-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
Ghee Teo wrote:
> Terri,
>
> Why didn't you raise your problem before the voting was closed?
> I think extending the ballot before the result is published due to
> technical problem is reasonable. Now, I would think it doesn't give a
> good handling on the democratic voting process.
>
> -Ghee
>
> On 03/25/09 16:28, Terri Molini wrote:
>> I wonder how many other people like me found they couldn't vote
>> despite registering keys? I bet there were people disenfranchised by
>> that key system, I saw other e-mails to that effect.
>>
>> I think as a community we need to understand whether there was
>> interest in the election or if the application kept folks from casting
>> their ballots before folks get wound up about the numbers.
>>
>> I would like to suggest something regarding the casting of ballots for
>> the recent election and changes to the constitution.
>>
>> The system allows the administrator to see whether or not a core
>> contributor registered a key within the voting time frame.
>>
>> We should then try to determine if a core contributor submitted a key
>> and tried to vote and could not or if they changed their mind about
>> casting a vote (unlikely). If it is that they could not cast their
>> ballots due to the system then that needs to be addressed. Perhaps
>> extending the time to those persons and offer a less complex way to vote.
>>
>> In summary, I am suggestion a re-ballot (extend it for 7 days) for
>> core contributors that could not submit their ballots.
>>
>> ###
>> --
>> Terri Molini
>> Sun Microsystems, Inc.
>> Global Communications, Open Source
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>>
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