On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 02:35:13PM -0400, Matthew Treinish wrote: > On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 01:15:28PM -0400, Anita Kuno wrote: > > Problem Statement: OpenStack is growing, the election tools we use for > > gathering nominations and communicating status of nominations, the > > current workflow can be found on this wikipage: > > https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Election_Officiating_Guidelines is > > unable to be accessed by election officials and the electorate in a > > clear way. The process we use for actually conducting the polls is fine. > > We need to discuss and agree on a new workflow for posting > > self-nominations and platforms for elections. > > > > Does anyone have input on tools that we might use to meet these > > requirements for self nomination and platform management in elections? > > Requirements: > > * archivable > > * public > > * unable to be edited once posted > > * clear differentiation between governed and ungoverned elections > > * candidates can self-nominate > > * low barrier to entry for tools, candidates shouldn't be restricted due > > to lack of knowledge of tools > > Well, doesn't the ML actually meet all of these requirements, except for > having > the distinction between governed and ungoverned elections. Maybe we should > just > build some tooling that watches the ML for posts with a certain subject (like > what you and the other election officials are currently manually enforcing) > and > check whether the project election is governed or not, updates a wiki, etc. I > don't think a little bot to do that would be that difficult to write. > (although > I could be easily overlooking something) >
I brought this up on IRC earlier today, but I figured I should post it to the ML too just in case people missed it in the scrollback. I wrote a bit of code to show how I thought the ML could still be used to do this: https://github.com/mtreinish/electionbot I haven't actually tried to run anything in the repo yet, it's just a concept at this point. But, I wanted to share it before I put too much effort into it to get some feedback on the approach. -Matt Treinish
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