Re: [PHP-DEV] Voting irregularities

On 19 March 2015 at 10:56, Pierre Joye <[email protected]> wrote:

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> On Mar 19, 2015 5:39 PM, "Peter Cowburn" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Moved discussion to webmaster list.
> >
> > On 18 March 2015 at 01:30, Pierre Joye <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> hi,
> >
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> >> Now, to be able to actually implement the little technical measure to
> >> ensure that everyone follows the same rules, I ask you one more time
> >> to provide the data of the current wiki so patches, changes etc can be
> >> implemented in a safer way. You know where to reach me to provide it.
> >> Thanks for your cooperation.
> >
> >
> > It sounds like you want to work on the wiki, great!
> >
> > However, I don't really understand why you need "the data of the current
> wiki". Could you elaborate a little on why you need that, rather than
> running your own local wiki copy with your own pages, etc.?
>
> To valid changes with existing data, especially in the RFCs, votes and
> related codes.
>
> It takes time to create prod-like data and be sure everything works fine.
>
It takes 5 minutes to copy a few pages' content from the production wiki.
 5 more to set up users/admin access in your dev wiki.

Then you're ready to run through whatever you're looking at doing:
simulating some votes, improving the registration process, improving the
patch vs plugin problem, ...

Surely that's better than waiting (more than a year!!) for someone to
needlessly (IMO) deliver you a copy of the files from production?

That said, it certainly sounds like we are running low on volunteers to
manage the more website infrastucture related things; such as looking after
the wiki website, as in this case.  What can we do about this?

> In any case, it has been more than a year now that I asked for that. Given
> that I and Lukas introduced the wiki, the RFCs and co to increase
> cooperation and reduce conflicts, I find the current situation amazingly
> disturbing. This is not acceptable.
>
> Cheers,
> Pierre
>