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[Sorry for the delay of my answer.] |
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>>>>> On Sun, 27 Dec 2009, Petteri Räty wrote: |
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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 |
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> some initial work to get feedback on the issue. I created a simple |
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> rails application where you can create questions and vote on them if |
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> you are registered and signed up. Here's what I am thinking for this |
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> to be truly 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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It looks promising, but of course we'll have to see how it works in |
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practical usage. |
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Will you write up instructions for openid if we are going to use this? |
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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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If I see the rate of replies to questions raised on gentoo-council, |
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the problem is more to get council members vote at all outside of |
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meetings. ;-) But maybe an application like this will help. |
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> 2. security. Currently we don't really even check if council members |
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> are authenticated on IRC and most of us probably don't use SSL to |
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> connect there when authenticating. |
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If they have ops in #-council then they should be authenticated? |
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I don't see this as a big problem, and I'm sure that any imposter |
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would be noticed soon. |
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> 3. People can find out votes before the official summary is done. |
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> I think the summary should still go into CVS but this can make it |
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> easier to create it |
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Right, counting votes from a meeting's IRC log is somewhat difficult. |
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It might even help when preparing the summary. |
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> If you think this would be something that we could use, I can |
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> continue to make this usable. |
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I would say, go ahead. |
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Ulrich |
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