Re: Request to extend - General resolution: LLM usage in Debian

Kurt Roeckx dijo [Sat, Aug 08, 2026 at 08:50:52PM +0200]:
>>Now, a question to better understand devotee's end of the issue: I had
>>understood that devotee checks on the currently active keyring _as each
>>vote is cast_, is this correct?
>
>Yes, there is a cron that runs every 5 minutes. It will check the
>signature against the keyring at that time.

Right. OK, I think it is important to have this understood by voting DDs at
large (-:

>> (...)
>> 4. On the 25th, I send my vote again (maybe even resend the same mail I
>>    sent originally)
>
>I'm not sure it's going to accept the same mail, there are some checks to
>see if it already saw it.

OK. I doubt (sane?) people would do it anyway, as it is more “natural” to
sign when sending. But it's good, again, to have it spelt out.

>> 5. Devotee checks the vote against the active keyring, and succeeds
>> 6. I get my positive vote acknowledgement
>>
>>Is my understanding right? What is the time resolution of the cron job you
>>mention?
>
>The cron to copy it from the system to the vote for seems to run at 4:34
>and 16:34 But I guess there is also a cron to get it to the host, not sure
>how often that runs.
>
>In theory I can also get devotee to reprocess a file, but prefer not to do
>it.

I agree in not reprocessing files: a NAK mail was already sent, people
would be surprised to later get an ACK for the same vote object.

 — Gunnar.