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+1 To what Joshua said.

I would also like to understand what is the goal we are trying to 
accomplish by moving this to a repo and submitting a CR and what does 
this solve or improve on the current way we are doing things?

Will it reduce noise? marginally (IMHO).

Maish

On 08/22/15 06:02, Joshua Hesketh wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Just a thought anyway.
>
> Cheers,
> Josh
>
> On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 5:44 AM, Anita Kuno <anteaya at anteaya.info 
> <mailto:anteaya at anteaya.info>> wrote:
>
>     On 08/21/2015 03:37 PM, Jeremy Stanley wrote:
>     > On 2015-08-21 14:32:50 -0400 (-0400), Anita Kuno wrote:
>     >> Personally I would recommend that the election officials have
>     >> verification permissions on the proposed repo and the automation
>     >> step is skipped to begin with as a way of expediting the repo
>     >> creation. Getting the workflow in place in enough time that
>     >> potential candidates can familiarize themselves with the change,
>     >> is of primary importance I feel. Automation can happen after the
>     >> workflow is in place.
>     >
>     > Agreed, I'm just curious what our options actually are for
>     > automating the confirmation research currently performed. It's
>     > certainly not a prerequisite for using the new repo/workflow in a
>     > manually-driven capacity in the meantime.
>     >
>
>     Fair enough. I don't want to answer the question myself as I feel it's
>     best for the response to come from current election officials.
>
>     Thanks Jeremy,
>     Anita.
>

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