Re: Is the list correct?

[Tobias Mueller <tobiasmue gnome org>]

Hey Behnam :-)

On 18.06.2010 21:24, Behnam Esfahbod ZWNJ wrote:
> Checking out the 2010 election pages, I noticed my name is not on this
> list: http://foundation.gnome.org/membership/members.php?date=2010-05-30
> , but I have voted and if I recall correctly, my membership is not
> expired yet.
Apparently, it is: Mango says you have Last renewed on: Mon, 09 Jun 2008.
You are an interesting corner case that slipped through: You were able
to vote although your membership was not valid for the entire election
period.

We could either try to catch those cases by complicating the electorate
selection process or by adapting the voting policy to the current situation.
The latter would imply that people could vote (and potentially challenge
the results) even if their membership expired.
The former could result in a complex setup. Right now we have one table,
the "electorate" which is a MySQL VIEW on the membership table, i.e.
only those who have renewed within the last two years. This table is
used to feed both, the membership web page and the script to create the
voting tokens. We'd need to split that up, i.e. manually SELECT those
members who have renewed within last_election_day - two_years. We could
get the last_election_day from the elections table.
I think I'd go for that solution.
Comments?


> I'm not saying it because I need my name on the list.  I'm just afraid
> there's a problem with that page, or the voting system.
Thanks. I'll try to take care about both, the voting system and the
membership page. In fact, the membership page doesn't take the date
parameter into account at all...

But haven't you received an email asking you to renew?

Cheers,
  Tobi