IRC log of #maemo-meeting for Friday, 2013-03-29

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DocScrutinizer05meeting, right?19:57
DocScrutinizer05##topics: starting council election. Announcing call HiFo board election. Referendum ongoing. Voting infra? Token/Ballot mails? Karma calculation? Login to www.maemo.org? IPHH sent contract to Woody/HiFo. HiFo sysop approval for xes?20:07
* DocScrutinizer05 looks around, glances at clock and calendar, wonders if he missed something except this weird holiday20:09
DocScrutinizer05ping me if you wanna start some chat20:10
DocScrutinizer05o/20:10
Woody14619DocScrutinizer05: I'm here... have small update on voting stuff.20:13
DocScrutinizer05fine20:13
Woody14619One is, voting system is running.  I have the files setup to import to get history back.  And have all but the last bits done on the voting interface to allow others to admin/setup voting without having direct access to raw db.20:14
Woody14619Am testing on my home site right now, with about 50% functional.20:15
DocScrutinizer05great20:15
Woody14619Should have the full voting interface in this weekend, and can migrate that, setup accounts for Council, Board, whomever we want to be able to setup voting stuff.20:15
DocScrutinizer05one thing we must start *immediately* is start sending ballot/token mails20:16
Woody14619Ironicly, we can do that before even entering info into voting both about elections.20:16
DocScrutinizer05yeah, but we must do that *now*20:17
DocScrutinizer05it will take a while til we managed to send out all mails, so that they actually get delivered20:17
DocScrutinizer05also we wanna use those mails to advertise referendum and election(s)20:18
DocScrutinizer05apropos plural, what's up with BoD now? have you guys over there made up your mind to announce your own election?20:19
Woody14619So, here's my idea:  Existing voting system has a way to send out X email at a time every Y minutes.  This is used by the "resend my e-mail" page to re-send tokens if they get lost in spam.20:19
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Woody14619We can generate tokens, put them ALL in that box, and the system will send them out in small batches over the next few days.20:20
Woody14619As for Board:  Rob has been on vacation this week, so nothing has moved much.  We are setup to have a meeting this week, AFAIK.20:20
DocScrutinizer05sounds good20:20
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DocScrutinizer05I wondered if we could send tmo PM for those who have a tmo account20:21
Woody14619I would love to, if there's an interface setup on TMO.  We have in the db the correlation IDs, so...20:21
Woody14619Speaking of:  We do have some work to do on "new" people.20:22
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DocScrutinizer05ask chem|st and maybe even reggie20:22
Woody14619Specifically, I have the electorate list from the last election, 6 months ago.20:22
DocScrutinizer05hmm, so you suggest we process "new2 users manually?20:23
DocScrutinizer05we'd miss out on those that are "old" but had insufficient karma last time20:24
Woody14619But we need to refresh that... because it prunes all members < 10 karma, and under 3 months.20:24
Woody14619Plus, I'm not sure there are any "new" maemo.org accounts, since it's been broken for about 3 months.20:25
DocScrutinizer05err, e.g. warfare created an account in... January?20:26
Woody14619On that front... it looks like the culprit is that all custom plugins were all disabled during Nemien's migration.20:27
DocScrutinizer05yeah20:27
Woody14619That not only nuked the custom karma plugins (wiki, tmo, etc).  But also an authetication plugin.20:27
DocScrutinizer05I just wonder if we need to follow that karma rule for electorate this time. Would it be unfair to anybody if we'd simply allow everybody with an account to vote?20:28
Woody14619Apparently Midgard by default stores pwds in the clear, and Nemien didn't like that.  So they put in a plugin that did ~crypt() on them.  That's busted, thus no passwords work.20:29
DocScrutinizer05I think it's less unfair than excluding a single user from voting due to us not getting karma etc sorted20:30
DocScrutinizer05wait! you say nemein nuked our complete user database, basically?20:31
Woody14619while I agree... there's been quite the squable over "rules".20:31
kerioDocScrutinizer05: no they didn't20:31
Woody14619No...  When they moved things, the plugins all fell out.20:31
Woody14619So now instead of having my password be "Happy2MeetYou", it's crypt("Happy2MeetYou",<some salt>).20:32
Woody14619But since that plugin is now not there,  the two are not equal, thus no login.20:32
Woody14619And since there's no "recover password" option, there's no way to change it from that crypted form to something else.20:33
Woody14619The old way was "change it on garage", since the system there stored actual user info and such in standard format.  And a cron job was setup to copy said entries over.20:34
kerionot being able to easily reverse it is kinda the point of a KDF20:34
* Woody14619 nods at kerio20:35
DocScrutinizer05all that squabble over rules been mostly about maybe *not* allowing stuff to community. We're supposed to handle rules for this single vote/referendum on our own discretion anyway, regarding requirements to be eligible to vote, since due to migration our former rules don't apply and we can't adhere to them to get new rules approved by community. So we don't have much alternatives to either fixing *everything* to the state it20:35
DocScrutinizer05been during former elections (virtually impossible since e.g. no new users during last 3 months you say, despite those users maybe *planned* to register so they could vote)20:35
Woody14619But that's not the point.  Most places allow you to recover by mailing you a link to input a new password.20:35
Woody14619Docscrutinizer05: I'm not arguing either way.  I'm simply stating facts.  If you follow rules, people will bitch that they were cut out.  If you don't people will bitch that you're not following rules.20:36
Woody14619Btw: Same thing applies to the referendum.20:37
DocScrutinizer05I'm going to follow rules as good as we can. The rules for HiFo been "council defines election rules", since everybody been aware the old rules wouldn't apply anymore due to migration20:37
DocScrutinizer05allowing people to vote that otherwise were not allowed to vote since *we* failed, seems the right thing to do20:38
Woody14619Yes: Hifo has specific language to allow HFC to setup election criteria as a sparate item.  And they can be different for HFC and Board, just have to both be in that document.20:38
DocScrutinizer05nota bene I don't suggest to change or ignore rules for running for a seat in council/BoD20:40
DocScrutinizer05I just say "let the people vote! why should we forbid them to vote based on some crippled rules that don't apply"20:40
Woody14619I'm not getting into this argument.20:41
DocScrutinizer05if somebody was going to bitch over that, I'd like to hear his/her rationale20:41
DocScrutinizer05while somebody bitching for NOT being allowed to vote, since he wasn't able to register on maemo.org or whatever, during last 4 months, would for sure have a point20:42
Woody14619Anyway: That's current status.  I have some time to spend on this this weekend, and hope that I can: A> Kick plugins back into working, and B>Get voting stuff setup as needed.20:42
DocScrutinizer05fine20:43
Woody14619And now apparently C: Get tokens going out.20:43
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Woody14619We can start that process with the old list from last election now, and add people when new criteria is settled.20:44
DocScrutinizer05yep, good plan20:44
DocScrutinizer05assuming we don't have karma aging in place ;-D20:44
Woody14619AFAIK: There is not way to "lose" karma right now, so that list is a given for those who can vote.  (and at ~5200 right now)20:44
Woody14619karma aging would have to be a referendum. ;)20:45
DocScrutinizer05hehehe20:45
DocScrutinizer05realy?20:45
Woody14619it's part of the election rules...20:45
DocScrutinizer05I don't think karma calculation algos are a referendum topic20:45
DocScrutinizer05anyway, nm20:46
keriowell, they kinda are if they decide who gets to vote20:46
DocScrutinizer05>>Announcing call HiFo board election20:47
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DocScrutinizer05kerio: so are registration details then20:47
qwazixhi, terribly sorry20:47
DocScrutinizer05lol20:48
DocScrutinizer05hi qwazix20:48
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DocScrutinizer05not much to read20:48
DocScrutinizer05Woody14619: what about HiFo election?20:48
Woody14619What about it?20:49
Woody14619I'm all for one....20:49
DocScrutinizer05qwazix: [2013-03-29 19:07:08] <DocScrutinizer05> ##topics: starting council election. Announcing call HiFo board election. Referendum ongoing. Voting infra? Token/Ballot mails? Karma calculation? Login to www.maemo.org? IPHH sent contract to Woody/HiFo. HiFo sysop approval for xes?20:49
DocScrutinizer05yeah, but how about BoD at large? do you finally announce own re-election? Or do we need to push the big red button today?20:50
Woody14619Board agenda has about 10 items right now. from contract stuff to funds for IPHH and ssl certs, and... election.20:50
Woody14619I can not, on my own, announce or declair anything.20:50
DocScrutinizer05since we're supposed to announce own re-election today, and if we want to keep in sync with both votes, we had to call for a global re-election instead of announcing own regular elections20:51
qwazixDocScrutinizer05, thanks20:51
DocScrutinizer05for when is that meeting scheduled?20:52
qwazixre voting eligibility, I think that we could do something like 10Karma or XXPosts*2+XXThanks*3>YY20:52
qwazixso that people who didn't link can vote based on how karma would've been20:52
qwazixor something20:52
DocScrutinizer05possibly feasible20:53
Woody14619this coming week... I believe on Wednesday.20:53
DocScrutinizer05dang, so should we postpone own election announcement another week then?20:53
Woody14619Actually, given a users TMO id, we can get their karma from tmo directly... (It's parsable XML output for the karma plugin...)20:53
qwazixAren't we required to announce <Apr 9 ?20:54
DocScrutinizer05yeah, thought so20:54
Woody14619Or call it, and Board can fight over if it's a valid call as well as if we should announce.20:54
qwazixSo next week should be ok too20:54
qwazixalthough I'd like to give people more time to think about running20:55
Woody14619Technically, they have 2 weeks to think about running even after the announce. ;)20:55
DocScrutinizer05that's a completely different topic: drum up volunteers/candidates20:55
Woody14619I'll note this:  I have already decided to run again for Board.20:56
DocScrutinizer05so, do we postpone the big-red to next week?20:57
DocScrutinizer05qwazix: ??20:57
qwazixreluctantly yes20:57
DocScrutinizer05:nod:20:57
DocScrutinizer05Woody14619: you forwarded the contract sent to you by warfare on behlaf of IPHH?20:58
Woody14619I did.  It's on the table for the next meeting.20:59
DocScrutinizer05ok20:59
DocScrutinizer05I honestly hope you don't decide to reject it20:59
DocScrutinizer05;-P20:59
Woody14619I should be able to sign it myself, but given we need to approve funding for it, and it technically did change (very minor), it should go for approval.  I doubt it will be rejected.21:00
DocScrutinizer05could you maybe finally already approve xes for co-sysop during that meeting?21:00
Woody14619I will add that to the item list.21:01
DocScrutinizer05afaik he's been informally approved by everybody and his dog21:01
Woody14619can you pm me his details (real name, home country, etc)?  I'm putting together meeting agenda now.21:03
DocScrutinizer05you also might consider changing your approval policy, by granting full control over permissions granted to maintainers/sysops to me and/or warfare. You might have noticed there've been quite some troubles with the former policy in real life21:04
DocScrutinizer05he posted all that to board several weeks (months?) ago21:05
qwazixI vote for yearly re-approval of master sysops, which will then be able to delegate responsibilities21:05
Woody14619before I was there and on the alias, so no... I don't know details.21:05
DocScrutinizer05I can try to find the copy council got, and forward it to you21:05
qwazixJust in case someone disappears to not be sysop for ever21:05
DocScrutinizer05qwazix: sounds about sane21:06
DocScrutinizer05originally I thought that's been my (only) function in this whole techstaff/maintenance thing21:07
DocScrutinizer05didn't think I was meant to be the kbd monkey of HiFo to type in "useradd foo bar"21:07
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DocScrutinizer05after HiFo allowed me to do, when I showed them the command line21:08
qwazixDocScrutinizer05, lol21:08
DocScrutinizer05It's been me who originally insisted in HiFo *approving* my decisions, not *blocking* them21:10
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MentalistTraceurAm I 10 minutes late, or 70 minutes late?21:11
Woody146197021:11
DocScrutinizer057021:11
MentalistTraceur(F'ing daylights savings time and timezones)21:11
MentalistTraceurShit.21:11
MentalistTraceurSincerest apologies.21:11
Woody14619I have one other agenda item for Council (via a 3rd party):  Update on status of *patch, thread on tmo, removal, etc.21:12
Woody14619Promised I'd bring it up, so.. there it is. :)21:12
MentalistTraceurDid I already miss everything good?21:12
MentalistTraceurOr bad, as the case may be?21:13
qwazixMentalistTraceur, <DocScrutinizer05> so, do we postpone the big-red to next week?21:13
qwazix<DocScrutinizer05> qwazix: ??21:13
qwazix<qwazix> reluctantly yes21:13
MentalistTraceurWhy are we postponing?21:13
qwazixbecause board didn't yet announce theirs21:13
DocScrutinizer05because HiFo has a meeting on wednesday21:13
MentalistTraceurOkay.21:13
DocScrutinizer05we still hope for common sense ;-)21:14
MentalistTraceurThen I agree. Postpone. We can postpone until at least after we know what happened Wednesday.21:14
DocScrutinizer05:nod:21:14
MentalistTraceurWas there any issue my input was wanted on so far?21:15
qwazixMentalistTraceur, on the other hand if you find some time you could prepare a draft for announcement and we can discuss it meanwhile21:15
DocScrutinizer05[2013-03-29 20:12:28] <Woody14619> I have one other agenda item for Council (via a 3rd party):  Update on status of *patch, thread on tmo, removal, etc.21:15
MentalistTraceurqwazix: Adding to to do list.21:15
MentalistTraceurAlso noting here,21:16
DocScrutinizer05pars pro todo ;-)21:16
MentalistTraceur#mentalist traceur to-do: write big red announce21:16
MentalistTraceur(Catching up on the *patch thread now)21:17
DocScrutinizer05err, there's already a thread you started?21:17
MentalistTraceurYou guys didn't notice? Qwazix told me to do it as soon as I could get to it, lol...21:19
MentalistTraceurhttp://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=1332837#post133283721:19
MentalistTraceurhttp://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=133283721:19
MentalistTraceur(To not get taken to a post in the middle/end of it)21:20
MentalistTraceurAnyway, I figured since we basically all agreed that /our/ opinions were all "should be removed", and sixwheeledbeast gave a clear list of issues with the packages,21:20
DocScrutinizer05how would I notice? I'm not scanning tmo for new threads21:20
DocScrutinizer05they are not even shown to me with my classic-light theme21:21
qwazixrss widget on N900 :)21:21
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DocScrutinizer05meh!21:21
MentalistTraceurthat it was fine to post the thread asking for community input without running it through the proof-read (I put a full disclosure bit at the bottom saying I wrote this without proof reading by council)21:21
DocScrutinizer05sure21:22
DocScrutinizer05nah, not needed21:22
DocScrutinizer05at least by me21:22
* MentalistTraceur is catching up on log for this meeting so far.21:24
MentalistTraceurOnce again guys, I'm really sorry I misremembered the correct time for the meeting.21:25
qwazixMentalistTraceur, I was terribly late too21:26
qwazix(if that's of any consolation) And I didn't have any daylight savings change to help my case21:27
DocScrutinizer05and i'm terribly early to leave ;-D21:27
DocScrutinizer05unless there's sth I'm needed for right now21:28
qwazixprobably not21:28
Woody14619K, back to work for me too...21:29
DocScrutinizer05ooh, one thing: we got some peripheral linked infra that's however useful for community and so far gets sponsored by anonymous donors, who plan to reduce their engagement (since they alas don't have an income to do this sort of sponsoring anymore). It would probably be a huge loss for community when those important support server would go offline21:31
MentalistTraceurDocScrutinizer05: More specific please?21:31
DocScrutinizer05Woody14619: in that context: what's Nokia's final position and verdict on stuff like tablets-dev.n.c ?21:32
DocScrutinizer05MentalistTraceur: there's a reason a don't get more specific21:32
Woody14619docscrutinizer05: From the contract I've seen, it may or may not cover such items.  The wording is very vuage.  But with the very latest update, it would appear to lean toward not granting that.  Sadly in this case: IANAL.21:34
DocScrutinizer05Woody14619: this is more like a tmo case21:35
DocScrutinizer05there is some infra that's not under m.o domain but still definitely needed for maemo21:36
DocScrutinizer05ooh, you answered my second question21:36
DocScrutinizer05sorry21:36
DocScrutinizer05what's about my first initial question then?21:37
MentalistTraceurAnyone rich in bitcoins to continue doing it anonymously?21:37
MentalistTraceurWho'd volunteer? I'm guessing no, just throwing ideas out there.21:38
Woody14619I'd say that more info is needed to know and it would be evaluated case by case.21:38
DocScrutinizer05hmm, i'll forward it that way21:40
DocScrutinizer05might result in some servers going down end of next month21:40
kerioDocScrutinizer05: does it start by s?21:41
DocScrutinizer05:nod:21:41
qwazixDocScrutinizer05, can it be funded by HiFo for at least some months more?21:45
DocScrutinizer05sure, no problem21:45
DocScrutinizer05I can forward all that's needed21:45
qwazixPlease do and let's hope that board approves it :)21:48
MentalistTraceurqwazix: I have a feeling at the very least the lawyer od the Directors will be very against that for obvious reasons...21:50
MentalistTraceurBut that said, worth a try.21:50
qwazixMentalistTraceur, I think that the board will be disclosed the required information and that will help the situation21:51
qwazixmaybe even the servers' ownership can be transferred to hifo, idk21:52
DocScrutinizer05ok, topic kinda sorted21:54
DocScrutinizer05on an off-topic sidenote: I think skeiron is a nice name for anything maemo related21:56
DocScrutinizer05next topic?=21:56
qwazixDocScrutinizer05, why?21:57
qwazixdoes it have any special history?21:57
DocScrutinizer05because otherwise I'd call it a day21:57
DocScrutinizer05oooh, skeiron. It's a wind21:57
DocScrutinizer05;-)21:57
qwazix:nod:21:57
DocScrutinizer05and it sounds really nice when speaking it aloud21:58
qwazixshame on me21:59
qwazixit's a greek word21:59
qwazix(as is meltemi btw)21:59
MentalistTraceurBtw, I have no further topics to add, so I am fine with wrapping this up.22:01
qwazixme too22:02
DocScrutinizer05me neither22:04
MentalistTraceurI haven't caught up all the way in the log yet, but as I understand it we are postponing the election announcement until next week so we can still do big red, or are we still announcing council election and then big-redding after if need be?22:04
DocScrutinizer05o/22:04
DocScrutinizer05yes22:04
DocScrutinizer05no, we don't annouce election yes as that would introduce a 1 week skew between council and BoD elections22:05
DocScrutinizer05s/yes7yet/22:05
DocScrutinizer05meh22:05
DocScrutinizer05cya22:05
Woody14619You can always announce and push the time table a week...22:05
DocScrutinizer05we need to do either or. either big-red-button *or* normal election22:05
Woody14619Hmm.. true that.22:06
MentalistTraceurOkay, my thoughts exactly.22:06
DocScrutinizer05well "announced" is MCC election since ~4 weeks22:06
Woody14619K.  Need to get back to work.  someone on tmo is making my brain hurt.22:06
DocScrutinizer05need to get a life22:07
DocScrutinizer05cya peeps, thanks everybody for joining in22:07
Woody14619.oO(It's all a "take over... last referendum ever!!!" Sigh... Shoot me now.)22:08
DocScrutinizer05nah, shoot somebody else22:08
DocScrutinizer05trolls22:08
Woody14619coming from you, after this past month.. that means a lot. ;)22:08
Woody14619K, off to finish this stupid calibration tool.  Before I make the new tool a hammer... I hope.22:09
MentalistTraceurOkay, well, that's that. Thanks everyone for your time. Meeting adjourned. I'll get big red announcement draft in the next 24 hours at the latest.22:12
* MentalistTraceur waves22:12
* qwazix waves22:13
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