On Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 11:01:36PM +0200, Timo Röhling wrote: > * Stéphane Glondu <glo...@debian.org> [2021-04-16 17:12]: > > I would be glad to help :-) > Great! > > > > With all that being said and having made my case, I am open for any > > > reasonably secure solution (including Belenios) that we can agree on, > > > and I will help implement it if I can. > > And I am open to make changes in Belenios if needed. > I'd like to raise two questions for debate: > > 1. Do we want to retain the ability to vote openly? > > Obviously, open votes are more transparent, which is nice and very > appropriate for many technical issues that we might vote on. On the > other hand, most votes in Debian are DPL elections anyway. > Yes, as far as possible. Agreed: most votes are the annual DPL election.
> 2. How much are we committed to the current process that works > exclusively via email? > > Personally, I think that a structured HTML form is more accessible for > screen readers than pure text ballots, and you can still make the web > interface render nicely in a text browser such as Lynx or w3m. > > On the other hand, some people might have considerably less trust in > their web browser than their email client. > No, please don't. We already have problems enough with HTML - a structured form would need to be fully accessible, secure, validated. A signed email is (relatively) more straightforward and has served us well for the last 25 years. Just my 0.02 - but we're all probably getting well ahead of ourselves - having just had two votes, maybe we should not be changing the system immediately. Andy Cater > > Cheers > Timo > > -- > ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ╭────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮ > ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ │ Timo Röhling │ > ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ │ 9B03 EBB9 8300 DF97 C2B1 23BF CC8C 6BDD 1403 F4CA │ > ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ ╰────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
