Aleksa Sarai - 7:17 13.02.17 wrote:
You need to login with your connect.opensuse.org credentials, you can choose from two candidates and you have to vote for two candidates - of course you can only vote if you are openSUSE member [2][3].
While it's a bit late for this discussion, maybe requiring people to log in in order to vote is a bad idea? The way KDE and the OCI do it is by sending every voting member a unique link they can use to vote, and there's a system in place to verify that your vote was entered correctly. Your identity and the vote you cast are not correlated at all by this system.
Cornell University even has a free (as in freedom and price) implementation of the above service called CIVS[1].
This new system is by no mean to be the final solution. It was just the easiest and quickest way to solve the problem. Sending mails with unique links has some disadvantages - like security. Plenty of people use public mail servers where plenty of at least robots scan their mails. Not to mention that quite some mails are sent unencrypted via multiple routers. So one of the first things kids should learn at school apart from use https everywhere is that private information doesn't belong to e-mail unless you encrypt them.
connect.opensuse.org does not do this, and personally I question the practical usefulness of connect.o.o. Aside from voting what _practical_ purpose is it solving? Registration to become a board member doesn't need to have a full-fledged "social network"...
Original idea behind connect was much broader - it was meant as you home page for all your openSUSE related activities. You would see what is happening in bugzilla, obs, what events are ambassadors planning in your area and much more... In the end is is used just for membership management, easy way to modify your personal data and for elections. Yes, it failed, and we probably need to find a replacement for those few roles that are still used. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org