<div dir="ltr">I'm struggling to think of a way this might help enable discussions between nominees and voters about their platforms. Since the tooling will send out the nomination announcements the only real noise that is reduced is the "nomination confirmed" type emails.<div><br></div><div>While I think this sounds really neat, I'm not convinced that it'll actually reduce noise on the mailing list if that was the goal. I realise the primary goal is to help the election officials, but perhaps we can achieve both of these by a separate mailing list for both nomination announcements and also platform discussions? This could be a first step and then once we have the tooling to confirm a nominees validity we could automate that first announcement email still.</div><div><br></div><div>Just a thought anyway.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,<br>Josh</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 5:44 AM, Anita Kuno <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anteaya@anteaya.info" target="_blank">anteaya@anteaya.info</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 08/21/2015 03:37 PM, Jeremy Stanley wrote:<br>
> On 2015-08-21 14:32:50 -0400 (-0400), Anita Kuno wrote:<br>
>> Personally I would recommend that the election officials have<br>
>> verification permissions on the proposed repo and the automation<br>
>> step is skipped to begin with as a way of expediting the repo<br>
>> creation. Getting the workflow in place in enough time that<br>
>> potential candidates can familiarize themselves with the change,<br>
>> is of primary importance I feel. Automation can happen after the<br>
>> workflow is in place.<br>
><br>
> Agreed, I'm just curious what our options actually are for<br>
> automating the confirmation research currently performed. It's<br>
> certainly not a prerequisite for using the new repo/workflow in a<br>
> manually-driven capacity in the meantime.<br>
><br>
<br>
</span>Fair enough. I don't want to answer the question myself as I feel it's<br>
best for the response to come from current election officials.<br>
<br>
Thanks Jeremy,<br>
Anita.<br>
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