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http://gentoocouncil.petteriraty.eu/ |
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I have a couple times said that the council could make use of a web |
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application to handle things. In celebration of the holidays I did some |
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initial work to get feedback on the issue. I created a simple rails |
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application where you can create questions and vote on them if you are |
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registered and signed up. Here's what I am thinking for this to be truly |
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useful in no particular order: |
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1. use openid to authenticate council members via |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~nick/ |
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2. every gentoo developer may put issues for the council to vote on |
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3. handle agenda items for meetings |
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4. email notifications about new votes and if someone hasn't voted |
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inside some timeline |
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5. handle glep submission timelines automatically |
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Some benefits that come to mind: |
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1. easier to vote outside monthly meetings |
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2. security. Currently we don't really even check if council members are |
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authenticated on IRC and most of us probably don't use SSL to connect |
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there when authenticating. |
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3. People can find out votes before the official summary is done. I |
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think the summary should still go into CVS but this can make it easier |
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to create it |
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If you think this would be something that we could use, I can continue |
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to make this usable. |
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Regards, |
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Petteri |