[cab-discuss] Nominations?

[Glynn Foster]

Al Hopper wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, Michelle Olson wrote:
> 
>> I think we should vote on something, with the new mechanism, before we
>> vote in the election. It is important to test the new mechanism and
>> our assumptions about how it will work. So, I'd vote to ratify the
>> Constitution first, to be sure it works well for everyone, then vote
>> to elect new membership on a separate ballot.
> 
> Hi Michelle!  If you're concerned about the voting mechanism itself, I
> don't think that we need to run an actual vote to confirm whether it works
> - since it's based on the same code/facility used by Apache.Org.  A simple
> dummy test conducted by a selected group of test voters will confirm if
> the software works as intended.

There's been zero details of this on the list so far - is it an open or closed
voting system? web based? mail based? how does it handle proxying of votes? Time
to google it I guess ;)


Glynn