* Valerie Bubb Fenwick <Valerie.Fenwick at sun.com> [2009-03-23 22:30]: > On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Stephen Hahn wrote: > >> * John Plocher <john.plocher at gmail.com> [2009-03-19 03:40]: >>> Anyone who was a core contributor as of Feb 16 (or so) should be >>> eligible to vote in this year's election. >>> >>> As this is the first year grants expired, we have been finding bugs in >>> the software. I'm Cc'ing Stephen Hahn; hopefully he can fix this. >> >> I've extended the grants that would have expired between 2/16 and 3/24 >> to expire at or shortly after 3/24. Reminder message logs show that >> this change results in approximately two dozen members more, even >> though 168 grants were affected. (I send reminders every couple of >> days during the election.) > > This seems to reverse an earlier OGB decision to *not* extend > those grants.
I'm not sure I saw that message, but such a decision would be in direct conflict with Constitution 5.8 and 7.8. > Were those extra two dozen folks notified of this > change so they knew they could vote? Yes, they would have been notified by email on the day their grants were extended > (I know most of the folks in our community that expired had > core grants elsewhere, which was apparently the case for most of > them). The extended grants will expire long before the next election. - Stephen
