On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 12:51:52PM +0100, Christian Ehrhardt wrote: > If you happen to activate the "wrong" email you'll just see: > > ``` > Email address successfully activated. > ``` > > But if you activate the right one (just as Robie said, usually the > @ubuntu.com one) you'd in the Web UI of CIVS right after clicking > "Complete activation" see this: > > ``` > Email address successfully activated. > Pending poll invitations: > Ubuntu Developer Membership Board restaffing > ``` > > The latter line is a link leading you to your vote.
Thank you Christian for detailing this. Hopefully this has helped others vote. So far the turnout is considerably lower than the previous election two years ago. Last time there were 54/173 votes cast at the time the poll closed. For the CIVS poll in progress I can't see who voted (or how) but the control page does show me the count. So far we have 23/174. We've had a couple of hurdles: 1) This extra opt-in step means that the electorate no longer get the poll request directly to their inbox. We're relying on them seeing the ubuntu-devel-announce@ notifications, or subsequent traffic to ubuntu-devel@. 2) Recently Gmail seems to have adjusted things which has caused deliverability problems to @gmail.com addresses (and presumably other addresses hosted by Google). IS has made some adjustments to try to help, but it's unclear to me if they worked because overnight I received ~373 "unsubscribe" notifications to ubuntu-devel-owner@ all at once, predominantely relating to @gmail.com addresses. It seems likely to me that these are a result of the deliverability problems. So it's not clear to me that all of the electorate is actually even aware of the election. Of course there are surely many more ubuntu-devel@ subscribers than those eligible to vote, so the number of unsubscribes doesn't actually mean anything. I'd appreciate feedback on how to proceed. For example, together with some specific action to draw the attention of the electorate, I could extend the voting period if that would be considered helpful. On the other hand, it would be helpful to get the replacement DMB members resolved as soon as possible. Perhaps the current vote count can be considered enough to not make a big difference to the outcome, given that there's no particular reason for bias in those that might not have received the announcement? Robie
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