Re: [gentoo-project] Future Election Visibility improvements? ( Was: Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Council election: less than 8h left to vote! )

[Raymond Jennings]

Would an election be something important enough to post to g-announce@l.g.o?

On Sun, Jul 9, 2017 at 1:23 AM, Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@g.o> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Sun, 9 Jul 2017 15:51:23 +1200 Kent Fredric wrote:
> > On Sat, 08 Jul 2017 18:20:40 +0200
> > "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@g.o> wrote:
> >
> > > Cast your vote! Let's make this one a record participation election!
> > > Less than 8 hours left...
> > >
> > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Elections/Council/201706
> > >
> >
> > I somehow managed to completely overlook the elections starting, and by
> > the time I got around to checking my copious amounts of email, and had
> > free time to delve into the swamp lands of -project, .... well, the
> > elections had already closed.
> >
> > I'm not about to demand a recount or anything, but I felt a little
> > ripped off that I managed to overlook something so seemingly important.
> >
> > Perhaps in future elections, Wilikins can be rigged to send a /notice
> > at least once to every #gentoo-* channel, both when elections open, and
> > within a certian threshold of when they close?
> >
> > Or perhaps send a /privmesg 's to every developer both:
> >
> > 1. When elections open ( or the first time the dev appears online in a
> > gentoo channel after elections open )
>
> Better to use Wilikins for this, the same way as Wilikins note
> service works: when dev performs some action, because just joining
> the channel may be done automatically (e.g. during startup or
> reconnection after network problem) and message may be lost.
>
> > 2. Every 5 Hours of the last 24 hours of the election window.
> >
> > ( The latter mostly being the most practical way I could think of to
> > counteract timezone effects and client-cycles losing the notice )
>
> People may consider this as spam. It may be acceptable to message
> only those who had not yet voted, but no more. IMHO better to do
> this 3 days, 2 day and 1 day before the deadline. Every 5 hours may
> be irritating and chances are high that dev will not be available
> during the last day for one reason or the other (ISP failure, power
> failure, too busy IRL, travelling, etc).
>
> > Because I think ideally we aught to be encouraging participation in
> > voting as much as practical.
>
> Actually we have a personal warning using MOTD on dev.gentoo.org.
>
> Best regards,
> Andrew Savchenko
>