ballot system back on

ballot system back on

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

So, things seem to be working, even if they are
now a bit harder to set up.
Let's start wrapping up 1.3?
I think we need to pack up and then do a ballot to ask OASIS to get a
special majority vote for us.

Right? Cornelia, want to start that?

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Re: ballot system back on

[Cornelia Huck]

On Thu, Jun 06 2024, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> wrote:

> So, things seem to be working, even if they are
> now a bit harder to set up.
> Let's start wrapping up 1.3?
> I think we need to pack up and then do a ballot to ask OASIS to get a
> special majority vote for us.
>
> Right? Cornelia, want to start that?

I've now created a ballot to request a special majority vote; please
double-check whether I got the incantations right.

And because all that work is not really visible: Thank you for getting
those ballot scripts working with the new platform! This looks really
painful and time consuming...

Re: ballot system back on

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Thu, Jun 06, 2024 at 06:51:24PM +0200, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 06 2024, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > So, things seem to be working, even if they are
> > now a bit harder to set up.
> > Let's start wrapping up 1.3?
> > I think we need to pack up and then do a ballot to ask OASIS to get a
> > special majority vote for us.
> >
> > Right? Cornelia, want to start that?
> 
> I've now created a ballot to request a special majority vote; please
> double-check whether I got the incantations right.
> 
> And because all that work is not really visible: Thank you for getting
> those ballot scripts working with the new platform! This looks really
> painful and time consuming...

Yes it was!
But in two months we did not get API access so reverse engineering it
is.  What made it hard was that the new system does so much in
javascript. Both the login system (it's a single site why does it need
SAML?) and the ballot form itself (lots of asychronous stuff,
animations, even a simple checkbox is hidden and implemented from
scratch in javascript because reasons). So I could not just use selenium
APIs (wasted a ton of time trying to figure out why). I started trying
to emulate keypresses and mouse clicks but that proved too hard to get
right. In the end I hit on the approach of injecting javascript into
page to interact with the hidden form elements.
Thanks,

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RE: ballot system back on

[Parav Pandit]

> From: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
> Sent: Friday, June 7, 2024 1:26 AM
> 
> On Thu, Jun 06, 2024 at 06:51:24PM +0200, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 06 2024, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > > So, things seem to be working, even if they are now a bit harder to
> > > set up.
> > > Let's start wrapping up 1.3?
> > > I think we need to pack up and then do a ballot to ask OASIS to get
> > > a special majority vote for us.
> > >
> > > Right? Cornelia, want to start that?
> >
> > I've now created a ballot to request a special majority vote; please
> > double-check whether I got the incantations right.
> >
> > And because all that work is not really visible: Thank you for getting
> > those ballot scripts working with the new platform! This looks really
> > painful and time consuming...
> 
> Yes it was!
> But in two months we did not get API access so reverse engineering it is.
> What made it hard was that the new system does so much in javascript. Both
> the login system (it's a single site why does it need
> SAML?) and the ballot form itself (lots of asychronous stuff, animations, even
> a simple checkbox is hidden and implemented from scratch in javascript
> because reasons). So I could not just use selenium APIs (wasted a ton of time
> trying to figure out why). I started trying to emulate keypresses and mouse
> clicks but that proved too hard to get right. In the end I hit on the approach
> of injecting javascript into page to interact with the hidden form elements.
> Thanks,
> 
Thanks a lot Michael for the heavy lifting to get this operational.
At least I didn't realize why the voting system needs such additional work specially when its upgraded.
Is it for the github integration?

Re: ballot system back on

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Fri, Jun 07, 2024 at 03:43:30AM +0000, Parav Pandit wrote:
> 
> 
> > From: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
> > Sent: Friday, June 7, 2024 1:26 AM
> > 
> > On Thu, Jun 06, 2024 at 06:51:24PM +0200, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jun 06 2024, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > So, things seem to be working, even if they are now a bit harder to
> > > > set up.
> > > > Let's start wrapping up 1.3?
> > > > I think we need to pack up and then do a ballot to ask OASIS to get
> > > > a special majority vote for us.
> > > >
> > > > Right? Cornelia, want to start that?
> > >
> > > I've now created a ballot to request a special majority vote; please
> > > double-check whether I got the incantations right.
> > >
> > > And because all that work is not really visible: Thank you for getting
> > > those ballot scripts working with the new platform! This looks really
> > > painful and time consuming...
> > 
> > Yes it was!
> > But in two months we did not get API access so reverse engineering it is.
> > What made it hard was that the new system does so much in javascript. Both
> > the login system (it's a single site why does it need
> > SAML?) and the ballot form itself (lots of asychronous stuff, animations, even
> > a simple checkbox is hidden and implemented from scratch in javascript
> > because reasons). So I could not just use selenium APIs (wasted a ton of time
> > trying to figure out why). I started trying to emulate keypresses and mouse
> > clicks but that proved too hard to get right. In the end I hit on the approach
> > of injecting javascript into page to interact with the hidden form elements.
> > Thanks,
> > 
> Thanks a lot Michael for the heavy lifting to get this operational.
> At least I didn't realize why the voting system needs such additional work specially when its upgraded.
> Is it for the github integration?

Exactly.

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