Bug#135885: O: debvote -- Voting software used by the Debian Project.
Package: wnpp
Severity: normal
The current maintainer of debvote, Darren Benham <gecko@debian.org>,
is apparently not active anymore[0]. Therefore, I orphan this package
now. If you want to be the new maintainer, please take it -- retitle
this bug from 'O:' to 'ITA:', fix the outstanding bugs and upload a
new version with your name in the Maintainer: field and a
* New maintainer (Closes: #thisbug)
in the changelog so this bug is closed.
Some information about this package:
Package: debvote
Priority: optional
Section: mail
Installed-Size: 88
Maintainer: Darren Benham <gecko@debian.org>
Architecture: all
Version: 0.2.0
Depends: mailtools, perl5
Filename: pool/main/d/debvote/debvote_0.2.0_all.deb
Size: 30108
MD5sum: ca7c9a6d81037b5e18516d031619ba87
Description: Voting software used by the Debian Project.
This is the software that Debian uses when it's time to count votes for a
leadership election or for a general resolution.
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The voting system is written in perl and is easily extended to cover other
methods of validating a ballot (making sure only authorized people vote)
parsing the ballot and counting the final result.
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The responses are created via templates to allow for easy modification to
suit the tastes of the votemaster.
.
This release only had modules that will work for Debian style voting. If
that suits your needs, this software will be useful. If it doesn't, some
minor coding will need to be done.. in particular - for your method of
validating whether a person gets to vote or not... and for your manner of
counting votes. README.rank describes Debian's chief method (and the only
method currently implemented)
[0] Justification: His packages have gotten several NMUs (wmcpu by Adrian
Bunk and Branden Robinson, wmdate two times by Adrian and once by Branden,
wmgrabimage once by Adrian and Robinson, etc), he has clearly demonstrated
his non-maintainership of his packages.
--
Martin Michlmayr
tbm@cyrius.com
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