On Mar 3, 2008, at 00:03, Stephen Lau wrote: > Al Hopper wrote: >> The current effort, while being fully collaborative, suffers from a >> few *deficiencies*: >> >> a) its not accurate >> b) its not updated frequently enough to remain useful >> c) there are now, by my math, 3 sites that must be consulted to try >> to >> find out what the current status of the 2008 elections are: >> >> 1) the wiki at: >> http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/2008_OGB_Election_candidates >> >> 2) the defect.opensolaris.org facility, which some are trying to use >> (overload in object oriented programming lingo) as a forum to track >> election status - by filing *bugs*??!! Are they serious? An >> incredibly bad idea IMHO. >> >> 3) grep through the obg-discuss lists and figure it out yourself. >> >> d) its not officially sanctioned by the OGB as a definitive source of >> election related information. >> >> Conclusion: there is no *official*, OGB sanctioned source of current >> OGB election related information - leaving the election wide open to >> some (possibly disgruntled) voter who makes a claim/challenge that >> he/she "did'nt know that person X was even up for election" ... >> etc, etc. >> >> A *personal* view of how effective this collaborative OGB election >> tracking system is: >> >> a) After seeing the first cut of the wiki stutus page announced on >> ogb-discuss I found that an individual, with the initials "Al >> Hopper", >> was nowhere to be found. Despite the fact that he was nominated >> early >> in the process here [2]. So, I added this individual to the wiki. :) >> >> b) After seeing the announcement from Steve L that a new tracking >> mechanism was added, and noticing, yet again, that an individual, >> with >> the *initials* "Al Hopper" was not present, I added this individual >> to >> the defect.opensolaris.org *bug* *reporting* tool. >> >> c) 24 hours later, is this individual present on the Steve L tracking >> page? No. What about after 36 hours? No. >> >> Request to the OGB: Please provide a tracking facility for the OGB >> 2008 Elections that has the following characteristics: >> >> i) it provides one-stop-shopping to allow *any* voting member *one* >> place to go to review *all* election releated information for the >> 2008 >> OGB elections >> >> ii) it provides accurate, current and reasonably complete status. >> >> iii) it is officially sanctioned as the definitive source of election >> related material and should be monitored closely by anyone with a >> vested interest for accuracy. Especially those seeking election. >> >> iv) it may or may not be collaborative - depending on whether or not >> you feel that this is a useful attribute of a single, definitive, >> source of current, accurate and official OGB election 2008 related >> information. >> >> PS: Thankfully, I'm not the only one who considers bugzilla to be an >> odd solution to a simple problem: Shawn Walker writes: "Can I just >> state for the record that I think using BugZilla to track nominees >> seems odd? :)" ref [3] >> >> [1] >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ogb-discuss/2008-February/004927.html >> >> [2] >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ogb-discuss/2008-February/004702.html >> >> [3] >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ogb-discuss/2008-February/004875.html >> > Hi Al, > The page I put together *only* extracts from the Bugzilla tool. I > wasn't aware that the Wiki page existed. Regarding your: > > b) After seeing the announcement from Steve L that a new tracking > mechanism was added, and noticing, yet again, that an individual, with > the *initials* "Al Hopper" was not present, I added this individual to > the defect.opensolaris.org *bug* *reporting* tool. > > I'm afraid I don't see your CR in defect.opensolaris.org. My page > only > extracts from the ogb product under the 'nominations' component. I'm > looking at: > http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&classification=Community&product=ogb&component=nominations&target_milestone=2008&long_desc_type=substring&long_desc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr&status_whiteboard=&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=&deadlinefrom=&deadlineto=&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=INCOMPLETE&bug_status=ACCEPTED&bug_status=CAUSEKNOWN&bug_status=FIXUNDERSTOOD&bug_status=FIXINPROGRESS&bug_status=FIXINSOURCE&bug_status=FIXINBUILD&bug_status=REOPENED&bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=VERIFIED&bug_status=CLOSED&emailassigned_to1=1&emailtype1=substring&email1=&emailassigned_to2=1&emailreporter2=1&emailqa_contact2=1&emailcc2=1&emailtype2=substring&email2=&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&votes=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&cmdtype=doit&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0= > Which should show all the CRs tracked under that, but I'm afraid I > don't > see it. If it showed up there, then it should show up in the tracker > page I created. > >
I think you are missing all the ones with an unspecified target date. Try this search: http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&classification=Community&product=ogb&component=nominations&long_desc_type=allwordssubstr&long_desc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr&status_whiteboard=&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=&deadlinefrom=&deadlineto=&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=INCOMPLETE&bug_status=ACCEPTED&bug_status=CAUSEKNOWN&bug_status=FIXUNDERSTOOD&bug_status=FIXINPROGRESS&bug_status=FIXINSOURCE&bug_status=FIXINBUILD&bug_status=REOPENED&bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=VERIFIED&bug_status=CLOSED&emailtype1=substring&email1=&emailassigned_to2=1&emailreporter2=1&emailqa_contact2=1&emailcc2=1&emailtype2=substring&email2=&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&votes=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&cmdtype=doit&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0= S.
