Planning for Fedora Elections

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

On 14.05.2009 20:40, Matt Domsch wrote:
> On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 06:48:50PM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>> I (as a voter) have neither time nor interest for IRC meetings if there
>> is no strong reason to participate. Same for skimming through the IRC
>> logs later, as that in my experience is often way more confusing then
>> helpful.
>>
>> IOW: IRC IMHO has a bad time/benefit ratio if what is being discussed is
>> not really important for you.
>>
>> Sure, IRC has a lot of benefits, but mail has as well, that's why I
>> suggest to let a some people(??) collect a few good questions with the
>> help of the community. Then send them to the nominees that have to
>> answer then within something like 3 or 4 days in private. Then put all
>> the answers up on the net and give people a chance to read them.
>>
>> After that do the IRC Town Hall-style discussions for those that like
>> then, They actually might be easier, as people can ask question like
>> "you said foo to the answer bar in the pre-questioning by mail; could
>> you please outline that a bit more into in regards to foobar?", which in
>> the end might lead to a better IRC Town Hall-style discussion.
>
> I've added a questionairre page to the Elections page, to which people may add questions they
> would like the candidates to answer.  Candidates will be free to answer
> (or not) as they see fit (at their own peril of course).  Thorsten, I
> would appreciate your assistance in a) publicizing this; and b)
> editing the list of questions at the time we'll hand them out.

Will do, but I dislike something. From the other mail you send five 
minutes earlier to this list:
"""
* IRC Town Hall-style discussions with candidates for the various
   positions will be arranged for 31 May through 6 June. Candidates
   will be given a set of written questions suggested above, to
   answer by public email if they wish.
"""
I'd highly prefer if those mails could be private. Otherwise those that 
answer at the end of the given timeframe can take the answers from those 
that answered earlier for help and I'd consider that a bit unfair for 
those that send in their answers early.

CU
knurd