[OSM-talk] election 1 Voting system prototype (was: Move tagging RfCs/voting to extra list?)

[Dodi]

to overcome plain text limitation maybe parsing votes from subject should 
also be a good solution
example
election 1 / +1

dodi

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sebastian Spaeth" <Sebastian at SSpaeth.de>
Cc: <talk at openstreetmap.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 3:23 PM
Subject: [OSM-talk] election 1 Voting system prototype (was: Move tagging 
RfCs/voting to extra list?)


> OK, I just coded up a little prototype. Consider this a small test of
> the system. I propose to set up an osmvoting mailing list to which vote
> proposals are sent. Subscribers will have to just insert one of the
> following:
> +1
> -1
> 0
> at the beginning of a line to vote (pro, con, abstain) and press reply.
> (Your mail address will not be published anywhere). Done. You can try it
> out now. Hit reply, insert +1,-1 or 0 at the beginning of a new line
> somewhere in the mail. Replies need to be send to osmvote at sspaeth.de
> (the mailing list should be set up to do just that automatically). A
> script evaluates new mails once per hour and records the votes. You can
> see the results of all votes here:
> http://sspaeth.de/osm/mailvote/
>
> Try it out and vote positive and negative to try it out (there is
> currently no restriction to one vote per mail address, but that is 
> trivial).
>
> spaetz
>
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