[Jenkins-infra] Board election (INFRA-536)

[nicolas de loof]

just as a side note, writing votes log to a plain file doesn't make this
solution "simpler", until we can ensure this file is persisted and has
backups. IIUC we don't have such a guarantee with current hosting solution,
do we ?

2016-10-20 17:01 GMT+02:00 nicolas de loof <nicolas.deloof at gmail.com>:

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> 2016-10-20 16:53 GMT+02:00 Daniel Beck <ml at beckweb.net>:
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>> > On 20.10.2016, at 16:42, nicolas de loof <nicolas.deloof at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>> > Also, board election process require to exclude >2 board members from
>> same company, BUT this information isn't available on jenkins.io LDAP
>> afaik.
>> > How do we plan to handle this ?
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>> > I suggest we add this as a new LDAP attribute that would be set as
>> board candidates get defined (this would avoid people to enter by
>> themselves with risk for distinct names for same actual company), wdyt ?
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>> Nominating candidates etc. can all be done outside the application. I
>> recommend we keep this simple.
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> Can be done using a configuration string, not a big deal. But not a big
> deal to do it inside the application. There's no such thing as a "simpler"
> solution here. In one case we will have to update production configuration
> to prepare election, with the other some extra CRUD code to set adequate
> LDAP attributes.
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>> Then, candidates are just an arbitrary string and URL. "R. Tyler Croy
>> (CloudBees)" and "https://jenkins.io/blog/whate
>> ver-rtylers-candidate-introduction-blog-post-is" should be sufficient in
>> the account app.
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> I prefer to use jenkins.io ID vs arbitrary string, so one can link to
> profile, github, gravatar, etc.
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>> As Tyler wrote earlier,
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>> > [Writing to a voting log from the account app] would make the changes
>> to the account-app minimal, and then we can just write some Groovy or
>> Python to process the election transaction log.
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>> So the actual dropping of candidates in the same company after two of the
>> same company are in can be done in that tool.
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> So, you want this app to just collect the votes, not handle the election
> process ?  I had in mind to use info.gehrels.voting:
> singleTransferableVoteElections for this purpose, so this is a fully
> automated solution.
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