Re: Number of options

On 13/08/26 at 13:00 +0200, Matthias Geiger wrote:
> Aug 13, 2026 11:57:54 Jessica Clarke <[email protected]>:
> 
> > On 13 Aug 2026, at 06:20, Lucas Nussbaum <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> On 13/08/26 at 08:04 +0800, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> >>> As far as I know, devotee has never been tried with 10 options. I
> >>> think it only supports 1 digit for the ranking, and might use base 36.
> >>> If 10 options make it, I will probably have to test this first and
> >>> might postpone the vote until I can confirm it works properly.
> >>
> >> If you don't mind reading AI-generated commits,
> >> https://salsa.debian.org/lucas/devotee/-/commits/35options might be
> >> helpful. (The commits are intentionally verbose, and you probably don't
> >> want to add doc/max-options.md and AGENTS.md, but I left them in the
> >> commit history)
> >
> > I can’t be the only one who finds this quite tasteless given the
> > context of the GR? Especially after the pushback already present
> > earlier for the AI-generated GR summary page?
> >
> 
> Indeed. While we are discussing that, the least courtesy I would expect is to refrain from using it for discussion /vote-related context.
> This leaves a rather bitter taste in my mouth. Why should I bother engaging in a discussion when a word generator takes my mail and emits some kind of response? This feels disrespectful, and tiring.

My email points to devotee commits to fix support for votes with more
than 9 options. So I don't understand what you are referring to.

Lucas