Am I the only one who missed the election?

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On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 8:50 AM, Brian C. Lane <bcl at redhat.com> wrote:
> I just saw the Fedora election results, and was surprised to learn there
> had been an election. After some digging I figured out what happened.
>
> Robyn sends her announce emails to: announce@, devel-announce@,
> test-announce@
>
> I saw the nomination email and the election results email, but no
> announcement of the elections being open.
>
> This is because Ankur Sinha didn't send the announcement to the same set
> of lists. I am apparently not on announce, only on devel-announce

Looks like it was sent to the devel list as well.

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2012-December/174779.html

> Emails like this should see a wide distribution, at the *least* they
> should be sent to the same set of lists that the other related emails
> are sent to. I suspect that the election turnout would have been greater
> if this had happened.


People working on the elections certainly try to make the community
aware of the elections. Unfortunately we never seem to be able to get
everyone's attention.

John