Am I the only one who missed the election?

Michael Schwendt mschwendt at gmail.com
Mon Dec 10 18:18:30 UTC 2012


On Mon, 10 Dec 2012 10:33:33 -0600, inode0 wrote:

> >> Looks like it was sent to the devel list as well.
> >>
> >> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2012-December/174779.html
> >
> > 417 messages in December so far! Too easy to miss the announcement,
> > if one doesn't pay attention to that list for some time. Even if it's just
> > for a few days, the elections are not open long enough.
> 
> Right and the sad truth is that busy people will miss announcements
> even if they are sent to every single Fedora list.

Well, that's not specific to announcement mails. Some people miss
everything, ranging from incoming bugzilla reports, dist git commits,
to personal mail.

Perhaps you should return to the first post that started this thread.

And there is no need to post to "every single Fedora list". Let's use the
_low-traffic_ moderated lists more appropriately. *I* don't mind adjusting
my subscription of "announce" list and adjusting the procmail recipe,
even if subscribing devel-announce is mandatory for packagers. Hopefully
it will be announced whether the next election announcement will move to
even another list.

> > Well, could you *please* decide on a list (or a well-defined set of lists)
> > where to announce _future_ elections for sure?
> 
> Well, the main announce list seems safe doesn't it?

Safe? In which way? It's opt-in. Unlike devel-announce, which is mandatory.
What about all devel-announce subscribers, who expect to receive
election announcements as before?

Reminder: Voting has begun in Fedora Board, FAmSCo, and FESCo elections,
ends June 7th
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2012-June/000937.html

If announcement move to announce list, it would make sense to announce
that on devel-announce. ;-)
 
> I'm happy to try to improve it and I agree it would have been better
> to have sent it to the other announce lists as well. But I do not
> think that will prevent someone from missing it in the future.

This thread (and my one on test list) are because we were expected
to learn about the election by paying attention to devel-announce
where previous elections have been announced.

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