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

[Hans de Graaff]

On Sun, 2017-07-09 at 15:51 +1200, Kent Fredric wrote:
>
> 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.

I had the exact same experience.

> 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 )
> 2. Every 5 Hours of the last 24 hours of the election window.

Instead of or in addition to IRC, messages should also be sent to the
gentoo-dev-announce mailing list when elections have opened (so that
you can act on it right away, rather than needing to file it away for
later), and a reminder message 24 hours before the election closes.

Hans