XSF Discussion - 2018-08-27

can we add Firebase as one of the tools that is using XMPP ? https://firebase.google.com/docs/cloud-messaging/xmpp-server-ref

on the main website

Memberbot is online for Q3-2018 elections

Oh, Sonny didn’t reapply. :(

there should be a way to abort voting :D

You can, at the very beginning :D

yeah but…

Damn, I didn’t submit my changes to memberbot yet!

Link Mauve, at least you managed to submit your application this time :-)

Yes!

I surprised myself two days ago by simply doing it. :-°

maybe somebody should work on the application bot

Would you accept a PR migrating it to python3 and slixmpp?

Alex, how is the ordering of applicants during voting determined?

ah, nevermind

Link Mauve will fix it probably

Link Mauve, make them sorted alphabetically

No, it’s better to have them randomised.

is it?

it’s annoying

Yes.

jonasw: getting randomized

but alas, there’s a rationale for that apparently

I sorted the applicants on the wiki page tohugh, I hope that’s okay

makes it easier to find the one I want to look at

It’s in order to prevent anyone from being favourised by being first or last in the list.

this was changed ages ago on requests for board and council meetings, where you have less votes than applicants, to give t hem all the same chance

I’d expect like in most similar voting processes, voters are more attentive at first, and more tired at the end.

tired/bored.

makes sense

but I agree, for teh quarterly votes for applicants there should be no need to randomize

For the reason I just gave, I think it’s better to keep that.

hm, maybe especially there?

ya

voted \o/

(Y)

yeah, congratulations Link Mauve for managing to submit your application on time

I'm not sure it's even true that for member votes you don't need to randomise.

Yes, as I explained above.

Unless Alex has his own fork, here's the source for the bot if you want to improve it: https://github.com/legastero/memberbot

Should probably fork it anyway into the xsf org

Yup, that’s what I built on.

And here are my changes: https://github.com/linkmauve/memberbot

I quite literally made the new bot because I lost a Council bid by a few votes; I'm sure because I was #6 on the list :p

Don’t pull the Redis one, it was just for testing because I didn’t want to have to setup Redis.

Lance, :D

I haven't voted yet

Does the bot send you the applicants in alphabetical order?

no

in shuffled order

Or why did you modify the wiki, then?

you can at least quickly find a name if a list is sorted alphabetically

Or was any reasoning behind the order, before?

not that I knew

(also, when I did the sorting, I didn’t know that the bot wasn’t offering me names in alphabetical order because the first name asked for was the first one by alphabetical order :))

I was just curious :D

memberbot is not up? Or not in my contacts anymore?

Ah, works now

Memberbot hasn't been working for me the last 2 iterations :/

I see it only - it just never responds. Already sent a mail to Alexander, nothing :/