Re: Voting irregularities

On 19 March 2015 at 10:56, Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mar 19, 2015 5:39 PM, "Peter Cowburn" <petercowburn@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Moved discussion to webmaster list. > > > > On 18 March 2015 at 01:30, Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> hi, > > > > > > <snip> > > > >> Now, to be able to actually implement the little technical measure to > >> ensure that everyone follows the same rules, I ask you one more time > >> to provide the data of the current wiki so patches, changes etc can be > >> implemented in a safer way. You know where to reach me to provide it. > >> Thanks for your cooperation. > > > > > > It sounds like you want to work on the wiki, great! > > > > However, I don't really understand why you need "the data of the current > wiki". Could you elaborate a little on why you need that, rather than > running your own local wiki copy with your own pages, etc.? > > To valid changes with existing data, especially in the RFCs, votes and > related codes. > > It takes time to create prod-like data and be sure everything works fine. > It takes 5 minutes to copy a few pages' content from the production wiki. 5 more to set up users/admin access in your dev wiki. Then you're ready to run through whatever you're looking at doing: simulating some votes, improving the registration process, improving the patch vs plugin problem, ... Surely that's better than waiting (more than a year!!) for someone to needlessly (IMO) deliver you a copy of the files from production? That said, it certainly sounds like we are running low on volunteers to manage the more website infrastucture related things; such as looking after the wiki website, as in this case. What can we do about this? > In any case, it has been more than a year now that I asked for that. Given > that I and Lukas introduced the wiki, the RFCs and co to increase > cooperation and reduce conflicts, I find the current situation amazingly > disturbing. This is not acceptable. > > Cheers, > Pierre >