Re: [gentoo-dev] Council polls now open

2006-08-11 Thread Ferris McCormick
On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 20:24 +, Ferris McCormick wrote: > On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 21:11 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 20:03:26 + Ferris McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > | So the "glue" is rather easy; problem is the specific balloting > > | method. STV suppo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Council polls now open

2006-08-10 Thread Jan Kundrát
Ferris McCormick wrote: > (By the way, if the ballots from council2005 are still around, and if > someone can make them anonymous (convert names to something like C1, C2, > etc.), I can take them and show what results STV would give, if you'd > like a controlled test.) Please see the following -co

Re: [gentoo-dev] Council polls now open

2006-08-10 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 10 August 2006 11:57, Grant Goodyear wrote: > Well, we don't yet have reliable software in place to _count_ votes, > but that's no reason not to start collecting them. once we've settled, it'd be good to upload the scripts we actually used to the council voting section -mike pgpWoAg

Re: [gentoo-dev] Council polls now open

2006-08-10 Thread Curtis Napier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: MD5 Grant Goodyear wrote: > Well, we don't yet have reliable software in place to _count_ votes, > but that's no reason not to start collecting them. The polls are now > open, and will remain so until UTC 20060911 (one month). To vote, > log into dev

Re: [gentoo-dev] Council polls now open

2006-08-10 Thread Ferris McCormick
On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 21:11 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 20:03:26 + Ferris McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > | So the "glue" is rather easy; problem is the specific balloting > | method. STV supports several protocols for selecting some number of > | winners from a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Council polls now open

2006-08-10 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 20:03:26 + Ferris McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | So the "glue" is rather easy; problem is the specific balloting | method. STV supports several protocols for selecting some number of | winners from a list of candidates, but Condorcet is not among them, | because Cond

Re: [gentoo-dev] Council polls now open

2006-08-10 Thread Ferris McCormick
On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 21:49 +0200, Danny van Dyk wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 10. August 2006 18:51 schrieb Grant Goodyear: > > Olivier Crete wrote: [Thu Aug 10 2006, 11:42:14AM CDT] > > > > > On Thu, 2006-10-08 at 10:57 -0500, Grant Goodyear wrote: > > > I volunteer (again).. What's the status on the s

Re: [gentoo-dev] Council polls now open

2006-08-10 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 08:00:25PM +0200, Jeroen Roovers wrote: > On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 10:42:47 -0700 > Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What is the current "election" name that we should use when running > > votify? > > > > To vote, log into dev.g.o and type "votify --help" for > > > inst

Re: [gentoo-dev] Council polls now open

2006-08-10 Thread Grant Goodyear
Greg KH wrote: [Thu Aug 10 2006, 12:42:47PM CDT] > On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 10:57:14AM -0500, Grant Goodyear wrote: > > Well, we don't yet have reliable software in place to _count_ votes, > > but that's no reason not to start collecting them. The polls are now > > open, and will remain so until 00

Re: [gentoo-dev] Council polls now open

2006-08-10 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 10:42:47 -0700 Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is the current "election" name that we should use when running > votify? > > To vote, log into dev.g.o and type "votify --help" for > > instructions. Doing that explained everything. :) Kind regards, JeR -- gent

Re: [gentoo-dev] Council polls now open

2006-08-10 Thread Grant Goodyear
Olivier Crete wrote: [Thu Aug 10 2006, 11:42:14AM CDT] > On Thu, 2006-10-08 at 10:57 -0500, Grant Goodyear wrote: > I volunteer (again).. What's the status on the search for voting > software ? Well, fmccor has suggested STV[1], so the current plan is to use "countify" to assemble the usual master

Re: [gentoo-dev] Council polls now open

2006-08-10 Thread Konstantin V. Arkhipov
On Thursday 10 August 2006 21:42, Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 10:57:14AM -0500, Grant Goodyear wrote: > > Well, we don't yet have reliable software in place to _count_ votes, > > but that's no reason not to start collecting them. The polls are now > > open, and will remain so until 00

Re: [gentoo-dev] Council polls now open

2006-08-10 Thread Mike Doty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 10:57:14AM -0500, Grant Goodyear wrote: >> Well, we don't yet have reliable software in place to _count_ votes, >> but that's no reason not to start collecting them. The polls are now >> open, and will remain s

Re: [gentoo-dev] Council polls now open

2006-08-10 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 10:57:14AM -0500, Grant Goodyear wrote: > Well, we don't yet have reliable software in place to _count_ votes, > but that's no reason not to start collecting them. The polls are now > open, and will remain so until UTC 20060911 (one month). To vote, > log into dev.g.o

Re: [gentoo-dev] Council polls now open

2006-08-10 Thread Thierry Carrez
Olivier Crete wrote: > I volunteer (again).. What's the status on the search for voting > software ? We follow two trails : fixing countify or find something else. I'll have a look at countify, but more monkey eyeballs can't hurt. We didn't find a good alternative yet, so you can also help in th

Re: [gentoo-dev] Council polls now open

2006-08-10 Thread Grant Goodyear
Christel Doty wrote: [Thu Aug 10 2006, 12:34:50PM CDT] > Sure, just let me know what you need me to do Grant :) Thanks! Um, I'm not quite sure what's going to be needed just yet, but I'll keep you informed. -g2boojum- PS. With three election officials, we probably have enough now. -- Grant Go

Re: [gentoo-dev] Council polls now open

2006-08-10 Thread Olivier Crete
On Thu, 2006-10-08 at 10:57 -0500, Grant Goodyear wrote: > Well, we don't yet have reliable software in place to _count_ votes, > but that's no reason not to start collecting them. The polls are now > open, and will remain so until UTC 20060911 (one month). To vote, > log into dev.g.o and ty

Re: [gentoo-dev] Council polls now open

2006-08-10 Thread Christel Doty
On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 10:57 -0500, Grant Goodyear wrote: > Well, we don't yet have reliable software in place to _count_ votes, > but that's no reason not to start collecting them. The polls are now > open, and will remain so until UTC 20060911 (one month). To vote, > log into dev.g.o and ty

[gentoo-dev] Council polls now open

2006-08-10 Thread Grant Goodyear
Well, we don't yet have reliable software in place to _count_ votes, but that's no reason not to start collecting them. The polls are now open, and will remain so until UTC 20060911 (one month). To vote, log into dev.g.o and type "votify --help" for instructions. If you run into any problem