Re: [PATCH] Documentation: propose community voting process

[Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>]

Emily Shaffer <nasamuffin@google.com> writes:

> It also appears that CIVS has a hosted service (that same
> civs2.civs.us) which means we wouldn't need to set up hosting
> ourselves. However, we could - Konstantin Ryabitsev mentioned to me
> that he thinks it would be feasible to set it up. I believe that to
> use devotee we would need to set up hosting somehow ourselves.

FWIW, I used CIVS to run a number of TAB elections during my time there.
It always seemed like a bit of a vulnerability - depending on a free
service run by an unrelated party - but we never got around to setting
up anything ourselves.  It's pretty straightforward if you want to run
an occasional poll; I don't imagine the Git community would be voting on
a lot of stuff, so setting up your own system might be overkill.

CIVS does require that people sign up there before it will notify them
of votes, so you would need to bug people to do that.

Anyway, if anybody has any questions about using CIVS for this kind of
voting, feel free to ask.

Thanks,

jon