Re: membership renewal

[Andrea Veri <av gnome org>]

2011/6/3 Frederic Muller <fredm gnome org>:

> Since I read J5 latest blog posts I also wanted to point out a few
> 'loopholes' some of which may have been fixed since my latest 'bug report'
> to you about not being subscribed to announce automatically.
>
> In fact over the past 3 years I have noticed some silent unsubscriptions
> from GNOME mailing lists. It happened to me on ddl, announce and foundation
> and thus resulted in me not receiving any email last year to announce the
> elections, nor to vote for the elections (no no I won't ask for a 2nd vote
> this year).

Good point, the main problem we had is our renewal script being broken
for some time
and since we just managed to take it back to full functionality,
renewal e-mails were sent
a bit late this year. This issue is now fixed, thus all members will
receive a mail on their
INBOX (hopefully not landing into SPAM, we will verify why it happens
and eventually change the
From: header) with all the details to cast their vote.

> Since the problem is obviously hard to troubleshoot/reproduce I don't think
> much can be done about it, however I just wanted to let you know that we
> have some weirdness in the system which might affect people sometimes (and
> preventing them from voting). I read 365 members voted this year (in a
> comment), so I suppose it is a minority.

Yeah, luckily they are a minority, we are currently voting within the
Committee to have
their membership renewed and a ballot created to allow them to send
out a valid vote.

More updates to come out soon.

cheers,

Andrea