> On Mar 24, 2015, at 7:07 PM, Daniel Gruno <[email protected]> wrote: > > Right, so I went a bit on a rampage, so we now have: > - Single Transferable Vote > - Yes/No/Abstain > - D'Hont / Jefferson voting > - Multiple Non-Transferable Votes (Plurality-at-large) > - First Past the Post (whoever gets most votes wins, Prez elections etc) > > all with setup, editing, voting, tallying in working condition.
Pretty cool. Is this really a plugin architecture? If so, can you provide some details? Regards, Alan > On 2015-03-24 23:00, Daniel Gruno wrote: >> I thought I'd write a note on what I am currently working on in pysteve, >> which is turning each vote type into a module/plugin. >> This is not a complete API yet, but if you look at the libs/plugins dir, you >> should get the gist of what I'm trying to do; making validation and tallying >> a function native to the plugins instead of trying to pull everything into >> election.py. This way we can add new vote types as we see fit, and people >> can enable/disable what they want to use. >> >> There is still some work left, as different vote types have different data >> fields associated with them, and I expect to be able to address that in the >> coming days. This will likely mean breaking the previously established JSON >> structure a bit. >> >> I've also added the D'Hondt (Jefferson) based voting system to the list of >> supported votes types, and I plan to add more vote types as the days go by. >> >> WIth regards, >> Daniel. >
