* Gunnar Wolf: " Re: Failing GPG key (was: Re: Debian Project Leader election 2019: First call for votes)" (Tue, 9 Apr 2019 21:58:43 -0500): Hi Gunnar, > <hat id="keyring-maint"> > FWIW, I already sent Mathias a private mail about this, as he also > asked this privately :) But this seems to be of general interest, so... Thanks a lot, I am answering here then. >> - What about DDs being approved just during the voting period? They should >> clearly be able to vote. >> - What about DDs losing their right during the voting period? Should their >> ballots be valid? > > Right. I am aware of both cases (well, of the second; given that key > addition is one of the last steps of an account creation, the first > case is basically impossible). Why is the first case impossible? Because DAM doesn't process accounts during vote periods? > We often did an upload on the day just > before a call for votes (we didn't this time, as we have adopted > during last year a time-based cycle which seems to work well and > reliably; keyring gets updated on the 24-25 every month). > > As I said on the private mail: I am set to do the April keyring > upload. If the Secretary acknowledges this will cause no unforseen > effects on the already tallied votes, I see no issues with doing it a > couple of days earlier. But I am not familiar with devotee or other > issues that might rise, and I don't want to break vote processing for > others. Looking forward to the response of Secretary and thanks for the explanations! Mathias -- Mathias Behrle PGP/GnuPG key availabable from any keyserver, ID: 0xD6D09BE48405BBF6 AC29 7E5C 46B9 D0B6 1C71 7681 D6D0 9BE4 8405 BBF6
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