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2012-05-11 , 13:56
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Originally Posted by Estel View Post
Not entirely true, Jaffa. Direct access to voting infrastructure - including starting voting, etc - is available only to X-Fade&co (see old problems with Code Competition voting). Only one thing SD69 can do, is talking with them.
Yes. And falling back on "well, I raised it at the Council meeting so it's now not my problem" may be factually accurate, but it's not exactly helpful.

Yet, during last Council meeting, his partners on technical/Nokia payed side answered, that "voting is covered". IMO, SD69 was not able to do anything more *before* voting start date.
I'm not going to blindly quote "voting is covered". The exact exchange allows one to see exactly where communication has fallen down. Again.

SD69: council elections require work too
SD69: Dave Neary is not available to help
SD69: X-Fade: will you be helping with the vote or someone else at Nemein?
X-Fade: SD69: No problem, will sort it out.
SD69: The dates comes up in early May.
X-Fade: SD69: if/when there are enough candidates.
SD69: X-Fade: I will confirm the date. courtesy of qqwazix, we will put up a banner to advertize
-- http://mg.pov.lt/maemo-meeting-irclo...04-17T18:56:27

I'm guessing that SD69 didn't confirm the dates. If he did, X-Fade seemed to think he was offering to help with the technical aspects of the vote (the bits that dneary did in the past); not all the comms work (the bits the Council did in the past). If he didn't, X-Fade would've been waiting for the next step from Rob.

I'm assuming that there wasn't a follow-up email (there wasn't to maemo-community) confirming the dates and if everything was lined up. It's not leadership, nor management, to point - like a lawyer - to the exchange above and say "not my fault" when it is clearly the Council's job to ensure the next election happens and happens smoothly.
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