Kurt Roeckx dijo [Sat, Aug 08, 2026 at 08:50:52PM +0200]:
Now, a question to better understand devotee's end of the issue: I had
understood that devotee checks on the currently active keyring _as each
vote is cast_, is this correct?
Yes, there is a cron that runs every 5 minutes. It will check the
signature against the keyring at that time.
Right. OK, I think it is important to have this understood by voting DDs at
large (-:
(...)
4. On the 25th, I send my vote again (maybe even resend the same mail I
sent originally)
I'm not sure it's going to accept the same mail, there are some checks to
see if it already saw it.
OK. I doubt (sane?) people would do it anyway, as it is more “natural” to
sign when sending. But it's good, again, to have it spelt out.
5. Devotee checks the vote against the active keyring, and succeeds
6. I get my positive vote acknowledgement
Is my understanding right? What is the time resolution of the cron job you
mention?
The cron to copy it from the system to the vote for seems to run at 4:34
and 16:34 But I guess there is also a cron to get it to the host, not sure
how often that runs.
In theory I can also get devotee to reprocess a file, but prefer not to do
it.
I agree in not reprocessing files: a NAK mail was already sent, people
would be surprised to later get an ACK for the same vote object.
— Gunnar.
