Re: TODO list for the elections

[Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org>]

Le mercredi 16 novembre 2005 Ã 07:13 -0800, Gregory Leblanc a Ãcrit :
> On Sun, 2005-11-13 at 23:30 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote:
> > Hey guys,
> >
> > As the current howto for the elections is not updated, here's a quick
> > TODO list for the elections:
> >
> >  * post a news on gnomedesktop.org asking for questions to ask to the
> > candidates.
> >    => See also 
> > http://live.gnome.org/MembershipCommittee_2fElectionsHowTo#head-9a64280b8b5cb11556aa2df12172d7f41bb1a5fb
> >
> >  * announce list of candidates
> >    => See also 
> > http://live.gnome.org/MembershipCommittee_2fElectionsHowTo#head-8bead1df224318e9f9a805d0f9f5d520efb6a76d
>
> I can do these two, but not until about 12 hours from now (at the
> soonest).  However, Jonathan Blandford said that we'd had a request to
> keep open the nominations deadline.  I cannot find reference to this.
> Did it go only to you, Vincent?

Yes, it seems. I told Jonathan to send a mail to the mailing list, but
the subject was too sensitive for a mailing list with public archives.

I don't think we can extend the deadline without an announce from the
board, though. I'll ping some board people.

> >  * process the applications sent before the deadline
> >    => There's not a lot. Should be easy.
> >
> >  * prepare the elections
> >    => it means adding one row in a sql database. It's not hard, but you
> >       need the access rights to do it. I can do it if necessary.
>
> I could grant myself rights to do it, but I don't know anything about
> what needs to be done.  Is there any documentation for the database?

Not yet, but I have scripts that do most of the work. I'll try to upload
them somewhere. Please ping me if there's no news on this in a few days.

Oh, btw, Greg, I thought you weren't in the committee any more???

Vincent

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