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On Sat, Aug 28, 2021 at 12:30:15PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> Please review the following pre-GLEP. |
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> GLEP: 9999 |
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> Title: Secrecy-respecting voting mechanism for Gentoo projects |
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> Author: Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> |
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> Type: Standards Track |
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> Status: Draft |
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> Version: 1 |
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> Created: 2021-08-27 |
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> Last-Modified: 2021-08-27 |
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> Post-History: 2021-08-27 |
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> Content-Type: text/x-rst |
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> Abstract |
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> ======== |
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> A new voting system is devised with the aim of providing a single voting |
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> system for all Gentoo elections and votes. Automation is used to |
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> eliminate the human bottleneck in processing the elections. Votes are |
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> submitted via random identifers, and the identifiers are sent to voters |
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> via encrypted e-mail to protect the vote secrecy. E-mail is used to |
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> enable non-developer voters to participate. |
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> Motivation |
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> ========== |
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> The votify/countify tooling used to run Gentoo elections dates back |
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> to 2005. While it still serves it purpose, it has grown antiquated |
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> and is facing a few problems that are discouraging the developers from |
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> using it. These are: |
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> The problems with the current tooling include: |
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> 1. The elections require a lot of manual setup and attention. This is |
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> causing noticeable delays and can raise doubts about the validity |
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> of elections. For example, voters can still submit or modify votes |
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> after the deadline until the infra official collects them. |
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Given what we have seen in the security election this year, what |
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determines *who* can start an election? Maybe some clarity in GLEP 39? |
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> At this point, votify is practically used only for the Council |
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> and Trustee elections. The late attempts of using it for the Base |
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> System and Security project elections have resulted in a lot of |
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> frustration from the developers participating. The vast majority of |
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> project elections are currently run using third-party services or plain |
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> mail votes. |
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I am not aware of anyone from the security team having issues with |
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this... would you please expound on the issues of use? |
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-Aaron |
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