On Wed, Jun 06 2012, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 03:24:37PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: >> The voters' preferences are a bit annoying to grep for etc. because >> they aren't normalised. So I wrote the script below, just now. >> >> If someone would like to include it in some package with a suitable >> name, and perhaps give it a manpage, please do so. Alternatively feel >> free to just take it of course. > > Rather than having a separate utility to do so packaged, I'd rather > prefer to have devotee output normalized tally sheets. Doing so seems > compatible with the transparency principle of Debian public votes. The > existence of "obscured" votes due to the lack of normalization seems to > be nothing more than a bug in how we present results. > > Did you consider turning your script into a devotee patch? devotee is > written in Perl too, so it's potentially not to hard to just plug your > script in as a patch. > > Thanks for your script (and for considering the patch idea)! > Cheers.
I'll be happy to add a normalization filter while publishing a "cooked" tally sheet. I would still prefer to keep the raw tally sheet around on the grounds of using a tally sheet minimal changes to how the voter actually voted (minimal changes, and because the current system kinda works). Once I get my act together again, I have devotee v 2.0 that I think is generally useful enough to package, since I have moved it to a command pattern based workflow, and thus people may add modules (check gpg sigs) or remove tham (no ldap checks), and move the action noides around at will (do gpg checks _after_ ldap checks) manoj -- "If I do not return to the pulpit this weekend, millions of people will go to hell."-- Jimmy Swaggart, 5/20/88 Manoj Srivastava <sriva...@acm.org> <http://www.golden-gryphon.com/> 4096R/C5779A1C E37E 5EC5 2A01 DA25 AD20 05B6 CF48 9438 C577 9A1C
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