----- Original Message ----- > From: "Peter Robinson" <pbrobinson@xxxxxxxxx> > To: "For testing and quality assurance of Fedora releases" <test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Monday, December 10, 2012 3:56:40 AM > Subject: Re: [Test-Announce] Election Results for FAmSCo, FESCo, and Fedora Board seats > > On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 10:47 AM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" > <johannbg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 12/10/2012 10:35 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote: > >> > >> On Mon, 10 Dec 2012 02:40:54 -0500 (EST), Robyn Bergeron wrote: > >> > >>> Greetings! > >>> > >>> The elections for the Fedora Board, Fedora Engineering Steering > >>> Committee > >>> (FESCo), and Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee (FAmSCo) have > >>> concluded, > >>> and the results are IN! and can be seen below. > >>> > >> This came in as a surprise. So, once again I've missed an > >> election, :-/ > >> and I've done some searching to find out why. Has there been an > >> announcement and where? I've started searching in the > >> test-announce > >> archives: > >> > >> | > >> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test-announce/2012-November/date.html > >> | > >> | [Test-Announce] Fedora Board, FAmSCo, FESCo Election Season, and > >> | Fedora > >> Board Appointment. Robyn Bergeron > >> | > >> | [Test-Announce] Fedora 19 release name voting Robyn Bergeron > >> > >> The "Fedora 19 release name voting" announcement is short and to > >> the > >> point. > >> It immediately starts with the important part that "Voting ... has > >> begun", > >> then the details and direct links to the Fedora Elections System. > >> This announcement has not gone unnoticed. I've taken part in that > >> election. > >> > >> On the contrary, the announcement from Nov 7 starts with referring > >> to > >> a "nomination period", _no_ concrete dates, _no_ links to the > >> election > >> system, and a lot of text in an attempt to squeeze everything into > >> a > >> single mail. Is that the announcement I've missed or which I > >> should > >> have read more carefully? > >> > >> Same on devel-announce list: > >> > >> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2012-November/date.html > >> > >> Could this be fixed for future elections? > >> The "Fedora 19 release name voting" message is fine, in particular > >> its > >> subject is concise. The other one is a confusing mess. IMHO. > >> > > > > We also need to see how many people voted not how many ballots were > > cast or > > could be cast and compare it to our contributor base to effectively > > determine if we are having increase/decrease in voting. > > Isn't the number of ballets cast the same as the amount of people > voting? You then multiply the amount ballets cast against the range > voting (number of candidates essentially) to get the total number of > votes available. Yes, # of ballots cast == number of people who voted in an election. > > Peter > -- > test mailing list > test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
