Forum OpenACS Improvement Proposals (TIPs): TIP #98: CVS committers allowed to vote

This tip proposes that anyone who committed to CVS in the last 180 days is allowed to vote on the OCT. The anybody who committed more than 180 days ago shall not be able to vote unless allowed to by the number of forum postings.

This ammends the original voting bylaws that allow any committer to vote. As we do not remove CVS commit rights, this means that anybody who has been committing at one time in their live can vote indefinitely on the OCT according to the current rules. Therefore my proposal to change it.

Approve.
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Posted by Victor Guerra on
My only concern regarding this is:

How are we going to relate the cvs user with the email address registered in openacs.org ?

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Posted by Malte Sussdorff on
Good point. Couldn't we set the username to the login in CVS for users who get CVS access?
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Posted by Carl Robert Blesius on
Malte,

when you write "vote on the OCT" do you mean "cast a vote in the OCT elections"?

In response to Vitor's concern regarding the relation between the usernames on the cvs box and emails on OpenACS: how about using Jeff's CVS browser on openacs.org (http://xarg.net/tools/cvs/) with screen name (on openacs.org) mapped to cvs user names (e.g.
http://xarg.net/tools/cvs/change-sets?user=maltes).
This would eventually allow us to show cvs contributions in profile pages on openacs.org

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Posted by Malte Sussdorff on
"Vote on the OCT" = "Cast a vote in the OCT elections", yes.

Using the screenname is fine as well, but username is unique and using username allows us to gradually switch over to using user names instead of e-mails, so we have one login for CVS and openacs.org.

I like your idea of the contributions showing up on the profile page, but we should get the contributions in to a list, which is paginated and can be filtered, as otherwise it will be too long for a couple of people.