Re: Re-igniting the Membership Committee
Stewart Smith <stewart-qBmou+/[email protected]>
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Anthony Towns <[email protected]> writes: > On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 11:09:06PM +1100, Kathy Reid wrote: >> The current MemberDB has *broken* functionality in the following ways: > > Other misfeatures: > > * The election system doesn't handle ties (as we've seen this > election) This is totally my fault. I remember getting to that scenario when coding and just going "well, no idea what *should* happen - we'll jump off that bridge when we come to it" - turns out I was fine for about 12 years :) > * At least historically, the election system wasn't really terribly > secure against local attacks; but maybe that's been fixed Not really. Access to database lets you change anything without really any auditable audit trail. Not sure that's a huge problem though?