Re: Fwd: Re: Volunteers for the membership committee

[Tobias Mueller <tobiasmue gnome org>]

Hey there.

Tobias Mueller wrote:
> I don't know how to test if the voting system behaves correctly, though. 
> I'd love to see a test election with, say, three votes and check if it 
> records the votes correctly. We can also try to compile a result then, 
> because I currently don't how to do that efficiently.
>
> I invite you to give your vote at 
> http://foundation.gnome.org/vote/vote.php?election_id=12 with the tokens 
> muelli auftrags-killer org and nf51jOC51{2,3,4}. It is open until this 
> midnight (around 7 hours left).
>
> If everything goes well, I'd say we can go live on Monday, 2009-06-08.

Well, I managed to compile a result using OpenSTV from 
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/stv/OpenSTV-1.4.tar.gz. The trunk 
version doesn't work. In order to have the encoding work properly, I 
needed to add the following trivial patch:

--- ballots.py.orig     2009-06-07 21:45:56.391744128 +0200
+++ ballots.py  2009-06-07 21:33:01.532619218 +0200
@@ -440,7 +440,7 @@
     self.index = 0
     self.fName = fName
     f = open(self.fName, "r")
-    self.buffer = f.read()
+    self.buffer = f.read().decode("utf8")
     f.close()

     # get nCand and nSeats



I think, we can announce the elections being held from Monday, that is, 
in roughly 4 hours.

I hope I can send to foundation-announce.
If anybody wants to help re-announcing the elections, I'd be really glad :)

I am about to reannounce the timeline. I just updated the website and 
the iCal file.

So long,
  Tobi