[cab-discuss] Draft ballot?

[Stephen Hahn]

* John Plocher <John.Plocher at Sun.COM> [2007-02-05 12:16]:
> Stephen Hahn wrote:
> >  By the way, I wasn't planning on placing a directly cut-and-paste'able
> 
> Fine - my concern magically evaporated :-)
> 
> 
> >  form in the ballot--the example would be invalid for the election
> >  (like numbers starting with 100, or somesuch).  The prompt could be a
> >  request for an entire list, or we could do something like
> 
> Is there an existing example site to play with?  This sounds
> a lot like the "select your locale" sysid cruft that install
> uses :-), and forces a rather stilted user interface, not to
> mention the incorrect prioritization baggage that ordered lists
> of numbers bring along .
> 
> [interesting UI ideas elided]

  Unfortunately, we are a bit more time-constrained than that.  I am
  taking the Apache software, and trying to map its operations to the
  credential storage we have on opensolaris.org.  In some cases, that
  means that I can reuse the Apache code, although I keep finding myself
  wondering about reimplementing specific pieces...  We'll see where I
  am late tonight.

> >	1 - J. Jones (jjones)
  
> >	...
> >
> >	Ballot so far [ssmith ...].  Next selection (enter x when
> >	complete):
> 
> 
> In this case, I'd alphabetize the list /IF/ there were more than a dozen
> or so nominees (I dread trying to find your name in a randomized list
> of 200 people :-)
> 
> Alternatively, is there a way to ensure that each voter gets
> a different random ordering of candidates?

  We can do that; it's just shuffling a card deck.  I think that the
  nomination procedure is unlikely to lead to more than dozens, but your
  point still makes sense.

  Any other opinions on a global, once-shuffled list versus an
  individually per-ballot shuffled list?

  (Also, don't forget:  we'll need a voter information page, with any
  submitted or offered blog posts/candidate statements, and it wouldn't
  hurt to see a fourth estate effort of some kinds, with opinion or
  interviews.  Or maybe just naked advocacy...)

  - Stephen

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Stephen Hahn, PhD  Solaris Kernel Development, Sun Microsystems
stephen.hahn at sun.com  http://blogs.sun.com/sch/