On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 11:15:57AM +0000, Peter Hitchmough (Twokan) wrote: > I am investigating approaches to manage a lightweight process to approve > documents for a shortlist. This process takes place several times a year > and has 20-30 interested parties and 1 administrator. > > A mailing list, particularly managed via Mailman, appeals to me. I have > glanced briefly at the Vote-MM add-in.
I've no knowledge of that. > Mailing lists are often used to review things for publication but I > would like to automate the tracking. features I want to implement > include: > - announcement of start, end of voting periods Do-able via sending an email, perhaps with an iCal or similar attachment, for people to add to their calendars? > - announcement of new items for consideration I presume, this will need some manual input, and not, say diff two directories (previous / current), and mail that output out via cron, or similar... > - collecting Yes and No votes (possibly More Info Please votes) Not too sure about this. I imagine that to collate this, some discipline of list-members would be needed. TBH, I'd provide a link to a script/google-(doc|form) for that. Validating entitlement to vote could be done via GPG, or similar, I'd imagine. A lot depends on your user-base. > - announcing final result, including list of items approved As above. Were I going with a script, it shouldn't be too difficult to make the script do a SQL COUNT (assuming a SQL backend), for each decision choice, and throw that out to an email. Of course, if this is something that happens often (and 'several times a year' is up to intepretation), it may be worth looking at automating these stages. YMMV. -- "Bernard: It's one of those irregularly declining words. I have an independent mind, you are an eccentric, he’s round the twist." ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org