Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (253 mails)

[Justin Haygood <jhaygood@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 14:38 +0000, Benji Weber wrote:
> On 05/03/2008, Justin Haygood <jhaygood@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >  > I would be interested if anyone can propose a system whereby
> >  > non-members can also vote.
> >  >
> >
> >
> > Some sort of personally identifiable (and verifiable) information could
> >  be requested, such as a legal name, phone number, and address. The phone
> >  number and address can readily be verified against each other (the
> >  number +1 905-XXX-YYYY can be associated with Ontario, Canada for
> >  instance), and you can always call it to verify the person on the other
> >  end is the person that voted.
>
> Well you can confirm that a voter is a real person easily enough by
> this or other methods, but how do you confirm that they have anything
> at all todo with the openSUSE project? It would be like allowing the
> entire world to vote in one country's elections.

Maybe require a minimum membership requirements such as:

1. User signed the guiding principles at least 2 months prior to voting
2. User contributed in verifiable significant way, i.e., reported bugs, fixed 
bugs, translated stuff, helped people on IRC, etc...

Even if a user doesn't use openSUSE as a primary distribution, but does 
contribute to the greater good of the openSUSE project, they'd be allowed to 
vote. However, this would leave out users of openSUSE
who do nothing more than consume the project as a whole.

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