On Mon, 10 Dec 2012, Adam Williamson wrote:
On Mon, 2012-12-10 at 13:56 -0800, Richard Vickery wrote: Fedora don't conduct election business of any sort via email. But since email is probably the #1 means of communication within the Fedora project, elections are *publicised* via email (as well as various other methods).
Speaking from experience (in this case running elections for the Union Society... ever a fun occupation!) you can never really have too much publicity surrounding an election. That being said, what it is important to do is define clearly, in the rules governing the election, where the election *must* be announced. Then the onus slightly shifts: if someone wants to know about elections they should take some care to ensure they are subscribed to whatever list is used for that purpose. I would recommend the announce list and the wiki. Every other communication should then contain a 'disclaimer' (to use a bad term) noting that the official notice is always on the announce list and that that notice is authoritative. Ditto for lists of candidates, how to vote, results, etc.
Your mail seems to imply the conclusion "...and thus we should not announce elections via email", which doesn't seem like something anyone would welcome. :)
There is absolutely no harm in announcing/publicising elections in more than one place, but all those messages should point back or refer to the official notice. The important consequence of this is that if one of the 'courtesy' messages is missed during a particular election then that should not invalidate the election in any way. Now, as for whether members of FAS/cla_done/<your favourite metric here> should be auto-subscribed to something. In principle, this would seem like a good idea. The traffic on the announce list is very low and if devel-announce, test-announce, etc. is used correctly everything posted should actually be of interest to pretty much all of FAS and/or cla_done. [On a slight, but nice side note, range voting is so much better than FPTP or AV :-)] -- Benjamin Lewis Returning Officer and Past-President Durham Union Society -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
