On 25/02/2010 20:27, gheet wrote: > Sorry to introject here. I believe the OGB collective decision should be > final here regardless of what Bonnie and her team has said. Otherwise, > the purpose and the existence of OGB is meaningless. They can be > directed to read this thread if they have query.
That's not what is happening, there has been some confusion around what the meaning of 'active account' is in the context of website account management. As I've already explained it has nothing to do with the election per se. To illustrate with a similar case from last year: If someone hadn't uploaded a SSH key by the date of record last year it meant they *physically* couldn't vote because they couldn't connect to the old poll system, but that in no way meant they weren't *eligible* to vote - all they needed to do was upload a SSH key. This year the poll system is web-based and requires login to the opensolaris.org site, which in turn requires that the person's account is in the active state. This year, rather than uploading a SSH key what is required is a request to website-admin at opensolaris.org for the account to be reset. To do anything different would mean that the criteria for this year's election would be different from last year's election, and that would require constitutional change - unless there is a belief that last year's election was in fact invalid. -- Alan Burlison --
