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[Elizabeth Krumbach <lyz@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 5:33 AM, Matthew Revell
<matthew.revell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> So, to move forward I'd like to know what we would need to do to free
> Ubuntu teams from their reliance on Launchpad polls.

As a "current state we're in" review:

In order to use CIVS, teams have to either...

"ask dholbach" and he uses a script which, as I understand it, pulls
public addresses and determines email addresses from GPG keys, this is
not optimal and will miss users who have no public address anywhere
(this is what is done for Community Council elections and has drawn
criticism[0])

or "ask jono" and he does something magic by working with launchpad
admins to get all addresses into CIVS and sent out (this is what
Ubuntu Women did for our leadership election since many women in our
community keep their addresses private to avoid harassment and we
don't want them excluded from ability to vote)

Instead of doing either of these, the only way "normal people" can
currently poll their whole community (including non-public addresses)
is via the launchpad polls. The Community Council used this for a
recent IRC Council and Edubuntu Council votes. So while the current
polls aren't great for this, they are the only reliable method of
contacting everyone we currently have available.

So as you can see, the major problem with moving away from launchpad
polls is loss of the ability to include people in polls who have
non-public addresses.

[0] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/loco-contacts/2011-October/005644.html
and dholbach's reply:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/loco-contacts/2011-October/005645.html

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