Hi >>"Marcelo" == Marcelo E Magallon <mmagallo@debian.org> writes: Marcelo> I'd also appreciate a clarification regarding this, Marcelo> preferably from Manoj himself. It is my intention to vote Marcelo> that way and this time I'd like my vote to be counted in Marcelo> the way I intended... This year we are using a new method of properly determining concordcet ballots using the Cloneproof SSD method. The script that calculates this is appended below. As far as I can see, this script does handle repeated ranking (I'm sure I'll be corrected post haste if I have misread the script). Mea Culpa. I merely followed the template for ballots from previous elections, and did not verify whether the restrictions were required. For the early voters (for the first 23 votes, to be precise), there was a glitch; I was surprised by the .forward file not accepting shell redirection (which it did for the last years vote); the .forward file has been fixed, and no vote was lost (people who voted were individually informed about this last night). (At least we didn't lose the votes like we did last year). I would also like to clarify some issue about the meta information about the vote machinery being used for this election. I have put a new mechanism in place for running this and subsequent votes. Unfortunately, an complication with wisdom tooth extraction robbed me of some of the free time I have had to implement the new process, and hence The vote parsing and gpg check scripts are still being tested. I expect them to come into production quality in the next couple of days, and hence the note that initial acks/nacks would come out later in the week. Once these scripts are known good, then they can be run periodically out of cron, and acks/nacks would be sent out within one cycle of the cron job. Your patience while the vote taking machinery gets the kinks out is appreciated. manoj
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cloneproof_ssd.pl
Description: Clone Proof SSD
-- Eat shit -- billions of flies can't be wrong. Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/> 1024R/C7261095 print CB D9 F4 12 68 07 E4 05 CC 2D 27 12 1D F5 E8 6E 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C