Re: Draft ballot

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Kurt Roeckx writes ("Re: Draft ballot"):
> As far as I know, devotee checks the text. But I have no idea if
> it supports resorting. If you want to know, I suggest you just
> look at the source.

The vote.d.o page had a link to this
  https://vote.debian.org/~secretary/devotee.git/
which I looked at.

The code iterates over the lines of the message body.  The key part
looks like this:

      next unless /\[\s*([[:alnum:]])\s*\]\s*(Choice\s+([[:alnum:]]):\s*(.*))$/;

      my $orig_rank = $1;
      my $option = $2;
      my $orig_candidate = $3;

It doesn't count lines from the start, or anything like that.
So yes, I think it works the way we would hope.

Thanks,
Ian.

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