Call For Testers - Elections Application

[Nigel Jones]

roopesh majeti wrote:
> I tried just now and following are my thoughts :
>  
> 1) The first page is good. But a clear heading like "Vote for 
> President " will be good rather than "Real President Nominee".
This depends on the election name in the DB, for real elections it'll be 
something like "Fedora Board F-9 Election" (or similar).
>  
> 2) When the user wants to know the info about a Nominee, once he 
> clicks the link "info", it is better to have a pop-up, rather than 
> redirecting the whole page.
>  
> 3) A non-uniformity is there in the Nominee's information. It is true 
> that the control directs us to the user homepage. But for this 
> President Nominee stuff, it is good to develope a generic page having 
> information populated regarding that Nominee.
>
> 4) Why the site is re-directed to cnn.com/politics 
> <http://cnn.com/politics> when the user request for more information 
> on the President Ranking page ?
The CNN Politics bit was maybe a the worse part of the joke but I was 
kinda refering to the US Primaries etc (i'll change this in a minute), 
the info links for 'real' elections will goto the Wiki page(s) with the 
candidate information, until someone higher up in the food chain says 
they want it done a different way, I'm going to stick with this. 

An early mock up on this concept looked absolutely disgusting from a UI POV
>  
> 5) After confirming the Vote, the user is redirected to the initial 
> home page. But the following appears at the bottom.
>                 "Build time: 0.115s, Page size: 2.23KB"
> It is truely required to display to the end-user ?
That'll be disabled on the final implementation, just wanted it there so 
I could go every now and then to make sure it was happy.
>  
> 6) When tried to view the results, by clicking "Community", iam facing 
> this problem.
> 500 Internal error
I'll keep an eye on this, I can't see an immediate reason for the 500 
error though.
>
>  
> Overall, it looks fine.
Thanks,

- Nigel
>  
> -Roopesh
>  
> On 5/29/08, *Nigel Jones* <dev at nigelj.com <mailto:dev at nigelj.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi everyone,
>
>     With Fedora 9 out the door we hit a very busy time for elections,
>     the previous system was, well lets just say, not optimal.
>
>     So I accepted the goal of creating an application by our
>     post-release election season that would integrate well with FAS
>     and would allow a different method of voting, Range Voting.
>
>     If your not familiar with Range Voting check out
>     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Range_voting the essentials however
>     is that you rank candidates from 0<-># of candidates, if you don't
>     like them, just rank them 0.
>
>     In the future, the application will not only allow the Board and
>     Steering Committees to hold elections, it will (hopefully) become
>     available to SIGs and Steering Committees for any time of
>     poll/call to vote.
>
>     This is where you all come in, it's impossible for a small group
>     of people to find every possible mistake or bug in ANY item of
>     software, so the more people we can get in to test it and report
>     bugs/issues/thoughts the better!
>
>     All I ask is 10-20 minutes of your time, whenever your free over
>     the couple of days to test and provide feedback.
>
>     Instructions:
>     1) You'll need an account on the test instance of FAS at
>     http://publictest10.fedoraproject.org/accounts/ (PLEASE) do not
>     use your normal password and you don't need to do CLA etc (I've
>     removed that requirement in the elections app for now).
>     2) Please direct your browser to
>     https://publictest10.fedoraproject.org/elections/ and test away!
>     3) Try voting etc, make sure that you *can* view the results at
>     https://publictest10.fedoraproject.org/elections/results/fedora
>     but can't view the results at
>     https://publictest10.fedoraproject.org/elections/results/president
>
>     Notes:
>     * I'm aware the UI is absolutely awful, there is already a ticket
>     open for this (https://fedorahosted.org/elections/ticket/4) please
>     feel free to add items there.
>     * Any errors you encounter that are 'unexpected' to you, please
>     file a ticket at https://fedorahosted.org/elections/newticket
>     setting Milestone to 'Release 0.1.0' with full reproduction steps,
>     and the time it occurred (TZ=UTC date)
>     * Any other feedback can be directed to the elections-devel list
>     (elections-devel at lists.fedorahosted.org
>     <mailto:elections-devel at lists.fedorahosted.org>)
>
>     After 5am UTC on the 1st June both elections will end and the
>     'results' should be public and hopefully we'll have a decent
>     election app!
>
>     Thanks a lot & Happy Testing,
>
>     Nigel Jones
>
>     p.s. Sorry to those that fall asleep during my e-mail - I nearly
>     did too!
>     p.s.s. Thanks must be given to Toshio, Ricky, Luca and Mike who
>     have all assisted in this release
>
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