Re: Membership Committee, it's time to work!

[Bruno Boaventura <brunoboaventura gmail com>]

Just CC'ing Baris (other mail) and Membership Committee.

Baris, can you help us with elections? The wiki pages are so
deprecated and I have no previous experience (and neither of others, I
think).

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Tobias Mueller <tobiasmue gnome org> wrote:
> Hey Vincent :)
>
> Vincent Untz wrote:
> > A few comments:
> >
> >  + any reason to have this private thread instead of having it on
> >   membership-committee?
>
> Dunno. Bruno started that ;-)
>
> > Le mardi 12 mai 2009, à 01:20 +0200, Tobias Mueller a écrit :
> > > Created commit 1d674ff: Added page for the elections in 2009
> > >  [...]
> > >  create mode 100644 foundation.gnome.org/elections/2009/mkical.py
> >
> > Hrm. This file (mkical.py) shouldn't be in foundation.gnome.org. It can
> > live in foundation-web, but it's really better if it stays outside of
> > foundation.gnome.org (unless you want to use it on the website)
> Hm. Well, the best solution is to generate that timeline.ics out of the
> Python script, IMHO. As I've said: My automake skills are too weak.
>
> (interchanging quotes)
> > > Please check the timeline file for correctness. Ideally, make the server
> > >  generate the timeline.ics out of the mkical.py I have just introduced.
> >
> > (I doubt we want to run a python script on the website -- the sysadmins
> > won't like it)
>
> I understand. As the script currently belongs to the 2009 elections, I feel
> it has a great place right now, although it's not meant to be shipped out.
> But as it neither leaks any sensitive information nor is linked from any
> site, I don't see an urgent problem.
>
> But I don't have a problem moving it to, say, a newly created "bin" or
> "tools" directory. Alas, next years committee might not find it.
>
> > >  create mode 100644 foundation.gnome.org/elections/2009/rules.wml
> > >  create mode 100644 foundation.gnome.org/elections/2009/timeline.ics
> > >
> > > Added page for the elections in 2009
> > >
> > > This was mostly a copy&paste job from 2007 with updating some data,
> > > especially the year.
> > > Note, that most of the sites need an update! Especially rules.wml should
> > > be updated.
> > > Also note, that timeline.ics could be generated with mkical.py, but I
> > > don't know Automake or the server setup good enough to make that happen.
> >
> > If things need an update, then you should probably do it ASAP: pushing
> > to foundation-web means things are live. See
> > http://foundation.gnome.org/elections/2009/
> Which is why I removed all links which might create confusion or commented
> problematic areas. Right now, not even the upcoming elections are linked
> from the elections page :)
> But still: Updating ASAP would be nice. Unfortunately, it's too late for me
> now and I can't do anything GNOMEy earlier than tomorrow 21:00 UTC.
>
> So, everybody feel encouraged to update the websites :)
>
>
>
> Thanks for your feedback :)
>  Tobi