[cab-discuss] Nominations?

[Stephen Hahn]

* Justin Erenkrantz <justin at erenkrantz.com> [2007-02-05 21:55]:
> On 2/1/07, Al Hopper <al at logical-approach.com> wrote:
> >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.
> 
> FWIW, the ASF voter tool (originally written by Roy; which leads me to
> believe that is what you are referring to) requires SSH logins to cast
> votes.  So, uh, I don't know how that'd work for OpenSolaris - unless
> there's a box that all eligible voters have an SSH account on.  BTW,
> it's fairly easy to do dry run ballots with all voters with the ASF
> tool - we do that every time before a 'real' vote is conducted.  --

  The repository hosting facility uses SSH logins, so we have an
  increasing collection of SSH public keys.  We're in the process of
  adding a server to host the voting software--well, a zone anyways.

  - Stephen

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