Re: Voting

alan Knowles wrote: > This is a TODO to consider for the next election: > > I looked at the site on April 31 - having seen someone's blog post > about remembering to vote. - And the vote had finished....... > > a) we are not all in the same timezone so finishing at May 1st GMT+12 > hours should ensure that anyone looking at the site is really given > until The deadline, their time.. > b) 10 days is a bit tight for voting - Pepr uses 3 weeks, and often we > dont get votes by then... = next time, at least 3 weeks should be > considered... - And a few more reminder emails on pear-dev wouldn't be a > bad idea.. Hi Alan, Here are the messages on pear-dev that explicitly mention the election start date: http://marc.info/?l=pear-dev&m=117450998924400&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=pear-dev&m=117451000624425&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=pear-dev&m=117451061125171&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=pear-dev&m=117459006816158&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=pear-dev&m=117609359515643&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=pear-dev&m=117695674929772&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=pear-dev&m=117695747113728&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=pear-dev&m=117696087425745&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=pear-dev&m=117696401200287&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=pear-dev&m=117699872313540&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=pear-dev&m=117699964530396&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=pear-dev&m=117700303416539&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=pear-dev&m=117701240011149&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=pear-dev&m=117704199301756&w=2 There was a full month of messages I haven't included of people declaring candidacy as well. It is true that if you are not actively reading pear-dev, you would miss the call for elections, but I don't think 10 days is too tight - most elections are only 24 hours long in the real world. PEPr requires code review and a lot of research in order to make a decision. Electing people requires an opinion and nothing more. However, in spite of my obvious personal annoyance (I really tried my best to make things clear), I do think something can be done. For future elections, I would like to have an auto-reminder email sent out to all devs with pear.dev karma for important elections. In addition, it is a good time to figure out who is actually an active dev, and mark the inactive devs as inactive, and provide a more accurate sense of who is doing work and should be counted as a developer. It would also be good to automatically reset the inactive flag to active if a developer votes, opens or comments on a bug, or does anything at pear.php.net. I was also under the impression that the voting interface would end the election at midnight on April 30, so that is an issue that needs to be fixed as well. I don't visit pear.php.net often, and with my crazy concert schedule (so far, I've played 14 concerts in the past 2 weeks) I didn't realize the homepage needed an update, that is my fault. In any case, I hope we can iron out all of the kinks, but as a reminder, there will most definitely be bugs and other problems as we change the way the government works in PEAR, please be vigilant as Alan has here, and don't be afraid to criticize as well as contribute, it's the only way we can get things right. So, thanks Alan. Thanks, Greg