On Sun, 2 Mar 2008, Sean Sprague wrote: > Steve, > >> I've put together a page here: >> http://opensolaris.org/os/community/ogb/OGB_Election_Status/2008_OGB_Nominees/ >> >> Which pulls from the Bugzilla and presents an always up-to-date >> human-friendly list of nominees, people who are still awaiting >> confirmations, and people who have declined their nominations. > > Extract: > > ----- > > All tables are sorted alphabetically by last name > > The candidates who have accepted and are running for a board member > position on the 2008 OGB are: > > Name > John Beck > John Sonnenschein > John Plocher > Michelle Olson > Glynn Foster > Michal Bielicki > Joerg Schilling > Alan Coopersmith > Jim Grisanzio > Peter Tribble > Rich Teer > Brian Gupta > Steve Lau > Simon Phipps > Bonnie Corwin > > > [Snip] > > ----- > > I must need a new video driver... And "Steve Lau" should at least have > been at the top of the list ;-) > > Regards... Sean.
Hi Sean, You're not the only one that sees a need for a little bit more *effort* here.... For the 2007 election I put together the status at: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/ogb/OGB_Election_2007/ and updated it every 4 hours (or so) when (election related) activity was high and once every 24 hours at other times. But, according to Simon Phipps [1] the *problem* with this solution was that it was not a collaborative mechanism ("no-one else was able to collaborate on the listing task")! Note - he did'nt say it was ineffective or not updated frequently enough or in any other way deficient - just that it was not a collaborative mechanism. The current effort, while being fully collaborative, suffers from a few *deficiencies*: a) its not accurate b) its not updated frequently enough to remain useful c) there are now, by my math, 3 sites that must be consulted to try to find out what the current status of the 2008 elections are: 1) the wiki at: http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/2008_OGB_Election_candidates 2) the defect.opensolaris.org facility, which some are trying to use (overload in object oriented programming lingo) as a forum to track election status - by filing *bugs*??!! Are they serious? An incredibly bad idea IMHO. 3) grep through the obg-discuss lists and figure it out yourself. d) its not officially sanctioned by the OGB as a definitive source of election related information. Conclusion: there is no *official*, OGB sanctioned source of current OGB election related information - leaving the election wide open to some (possibly disgruntled) voter who makes a claim/challenge that he/she "did'nt know that person X was even up for election" ... etc, etc. A *personal* view of how effective this collaborative OGB election tracking system is: a) After seeing the first cut of the wiki stutus page announced on ogb-discuss I found that an individual, with the initials "Al Hopper", was nowhere to be found. Despite the fact that he was nominated early in the process here [2]. So, I added this individual to the wiki. :) b) After seeing the announcement from Steve L that a new tracking mechanism was added, and noticing, yet again, that an individual, with the *initials* "Al Hopper" was not present, I added this individual to the defect.opensolaris.org *bug* *reporting* tool. c) 24 hours later, is this individual present on the Steve L tracking page? No. What about after 36 hours? No. Request to the OGB: Please provide a tracking facility for the OGB 2008 Elections that has the following characteristics: i) it provides one-stop-shopping to allow *any* voting member *one* place to go to review *all* election releated information for the 2008 OGB elections ii) it provides accurate, current and reasonably complete status. iii) it is officially sanctioned as the definitive source of election related material and should be monitored closely by anyone with a vested interest for accuracy. Especially those seeking election. iv) it may or may not be collaborative - depending on whether or not you feel that this is a useful attribute of a single, definitive, source of current, accurate and official OGB election 2008 related information. PS: Thankfully, I'm not the only one who considers bugzilla to be an odd solution to a simple problem: Shawn Walker writes: "Can I just state for the record that I think using BugZilla to track nominees seems odd? :)" ref [3] [1] http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ogb-discuss/2008-February/004927.html [2] http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ogb-discuss/2008-February/004702.html [3] http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ogb-discuss/2008-February/004875.html Regards, Al Hopper Logical Approach Inc, Plano, TX. al at logical-approach.com Voice: 972.379.2133 Fax: 972.379.2134 Timezone: US CDT OpenSolaris Governing Board (OGB) Member - Apr 2005 to Mar 2007 http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/ogb/ogb_2005-2007/
