fedmsg for voting?

Pierre-Yves Chibon pingou at pingoured.fr
Thu Sep 12 15:30:43 UTC 2013


On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 09:55:51AM -0500, inode0 wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 7:59 AM, Ralph Bean <rbean at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 09:23:44PM -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> >> On Sep 11, 2013 6:02 PM, "Matthew Miller" <mattdm at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> >> > What if we made this like the "I voted" stickers -- you can get one by
> >> > checking a box in the voting app? (Even if, by the way, you cast no actual
> >> > votes?)
> >> >
> >> I had thought that this would trigger off of someone hitting submit on the
> >> election page.  That should vote 0 for all candidates if no votes are
> >> assigned but still meet the trigger condition.  Not sure if that meets the
> >> criteria for objectors, though.  Ralph bean should weigh in here as to
> >> whether "logged in during an election period" would also be suitable (which
> >> was something that people seemed to think would be acceptable earlier in
> >> the thread).
> >
> > Hm, its not worth doing if we're going to make it complex like this.
> > I think we should just drop it.  No fedmsg broadcast for votes, only
> > for election period opening/closing and only for election results
> > publication/retraction by the admin (with obviously no user
> > participation data included).
> >
> > It is just not important enough to:
> >
> > 1) cause anyone any worry.
> > 2) bother engineering a complicated "compromise" solution.
> >
> > If someone wants to argue that we still try to make it happen, I'll
> > hear that and implement it if a consensus is formed.  (FWIW,
> > personally I'm still all for it).
> 
> I thought triggering off logging into the election app would be easier
> and at least in my case is a compromise that I would be comfortable
> with even without any opt-in/opt-out addition beyond what you have
> already made available globally.

It needs to be something else than logging in, maybe, visit the vote page logged
in.
That should be easy enough to do in nuancier-lite (and we'll see about
elections).

Works for me :)

Pierre


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