On Sat, 2006-07-22 at 10:05 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote: > On Sat, 2006-07-22 at 18:08 +0530, Rahul wrote: > > 5)Adopting the Fedora Extras voting infrastructure seems a good > > solution. Is that a generic app or does it require changes? > > That's what I thought we should use too; I wanted to see what people > here agreed on. I think it's pretty generic, but I haven't looked at > the code at all. (I would probably leave that to someone who understood > it better, truth be told.) The election database is pretty generic. The front-end is a bit more specific. Creating a new template for a new election isn't that hard. It's python but currently doesn't tie into any of the nifty python web frameworks. Luke Macken has been working to update the TurboGears stack for the infrastructure group and I was hoping we'd be able to use that for enhancing the election app but I'll have to take a look at how easily it will integrate with our account system. On a slightly differecnt aspect, I'd like to avoid voter burnout. Since FESCo is currently planning on holding elections after every FC-release as well, perhaps we could try to make a combined ballot that has FESCo and the Board. If other fedora subprojects want to vote using the voting app at the same time (after FC-releases) we could have a ballot that lists all the issues an account holder is currently allowed to vote in and pulls up the ballots for each of those for the voter. I'm currently writing up a "Next FESCo election" email for discussion on extras-list and should be sending it sometime tonight. One of the points relate to whether we want to stay with the bloc voting model (vote for N seats among M candidates where M > N.) or change to something else (ranked voting, approval voting, etc). Since voting brings out the armchair analyst in people, I think we'll have a healthy and lively debate over this :-) -Toshio
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