From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E4EC13877A for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2014 14:26:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CFE06E0A85; Thu, 17 Jul 2014 14:26:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vc0-f171.google.com (mail-vc0-f171.google.com [209.85.220.171]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 26D18E09CC for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2014 14:26:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-vc0-f171.google.com with SMTP id hq11so3196988vcb.30 for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2014 07:26:44 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type; bh=M387wSHHxdMA52J+md6Clg9ktVJ4o4u82n7nisspqp8=; b=ZlcTK8f50rV7LbQlACtXyx3sCWI16MJBXKrxDFflaXd6f0qXxlVYpzOiuxgP3fXuVa mKj8xcLFZNJLWKD1W1Lo4vtIStwoQtVIWZtnR63Gu1DWQe+aE2CSUOJ2d2XjxZ6H0g2Y bHl/KSdEAsdUYm44nJAolkq+hKzgAKMYc9ChCgJsAJ+V0TMYJqdoB/pOeigGPSwsvxoC yD5mA3tEjrS0StkgcGOjQengJ9JNht5+hnSnLtVXQscg6R4k96ywpagDc6Sc1PQki5Q9 eTS0ti8c+QvDnF5Ayp+ArbarHhGidAqHOYjd56T+jGhYY1errJKu7lnfKCdwG+1oMLdD 3LLg== Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Project discussion list X-BeenThere: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.220.49.10 with SMTP id t10mr19221966vcf.34.1405607203350; Thu, 17 Jul 2014 07:26:43 -0700 (PDT) Sender: freemanrich@gmail.com Received: by 10.52.72.19 with HTTP; Thu, 17 Jul 2014 07:26:43 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <53C7CCC2.20002@gentoo.org> References: <53C7202F.1050404@gentoo.org> <53C72B84.9050605@gentoo.org> <53C7B59A.8090605@gentoo.org> <53C7B852.8070708@gentoo.org> <53C7BE51.3040605@gentoo.org> <53C7CCC2.20002@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 10:26:43 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 7q_pHgoDg5IfVk6uejtey_4wHnU Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Gentoo Council Elections Results for term 2014-2015 From: Rich Freeman To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: 8aa62565-0860-4e4b-bcb4-4dd47343b7ac X-Archives-Hash: d76efb1fe0fd77ccbdc91b7006eb9a76 On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 9:16 AM, hasufell wrote: > Rich Freeman: >> I think the only practical option is to try to prevent something like >> this from happening again > > The reason this happened is IMO not just the failure of an election > official, but the fact that it's technically even possible. > > Why is there any mapping between id and developer name (or why have the > election officials access to this mapping... by definition it's already > a non-anonymous election then)? > > I think it should be clear that this is also a technical issue and needs > to be improved. > Sure, as much process as technical, but if the elections team is looking for something to keep them busy until next year, this might be worth some attention. It is also the sort of thing that anybody could contribute to. Heck, we could even migrate the sources to git while we're at it. :) Rich