Re: [ros-dev] Voting system

[Brandon Turner]

I _strongly_ disagree with this.  Two reasons:
1) No way to make sure no one is cheating and not voting a bunch of times.
2) I don't think everyone voting is educated well enough on the topic.  
In the case coding questions like the macros vote we recently had, i 
didnt vote.  i barely trust my own knowledge and i dont want to leave it 
up to others that might know less then me to make the decsion.  In the 
case of a PC, I just dont think that a user that reads the message 
boards or the general mailing list will have enough info and feel for 
who should and shouldnt be a PC.  In both cases people with education on 
the topic will probably outnumber those who do know about it, and might 
skew things very badly.

Brandon

Rick Langschultz wrote:

>   Please let me state my opinion about the voting
> process. I think the 
>  voting process should be open to developers and users of reactos. 
>  Although I do not develop fully on reactos, or for reactos, I am 
>  planning on developing open-sourced components for reactos that would 
>  be available through my website and possibly submitted as a package 
>  for ReactOS. I believe that developers and end users should be allowed 
>  to vote because they provide the most feedback on not only the 
>  technical but the aesthetics of ReactOS. I think putting voting in the 
>  forum and only allowing developers anonymous voting is stupid. I think 
>  logging each members votes should be logged as well as session 
>  variables and ipaddresses. This will allow the voting to stay true. 
>  Just a few thoughts...
>  On Oct 19, 2005, at 4:39 AM, Murphy, Ged (Bolton) wrote:
>
> >   This seems to have died a death again, so I'm
> > going to bring it back up.
> >
> >  So far we have 2 viable options for the new voting system:
> >
> >  1. Have a new section in the forums where only the developer group 
> >  has write access.
> >      Conduct all votes in there using the forums built-in voting 
> >  system and posting mechanism for comments
> >      Vote results are stored in the database and everything is handled 
> >  by the software
> >      All votes are anonymous / private and each developer has only one 
> >  vote.
> >
> >  2. Design our own voting system and integrate it into the website.
> >      This will be controlled via the global login system and all devs 
> >  will have access to initiate, vote and comment on votes.
> >
> >      Vote results need to be stored in a database and everything 
> >  should handled by the software
> >      All votes are anonymous / private and each developer has only one 
> >  vote.
> >
> >  Any comments or additions?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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