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Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 12:55:46 +1100
From: David Crossley <crossley@apache.org>
To: general@incubator.apache.org
Subject: Re: the Voting Status monitor is overloaded
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David Crossley wrote:
>
> It seems that the brilliant "Voting Status" monitor
> has fallen into disrepair. Partly due to people
> not properly following up with a clear RESULT tally
> and partly perhaps inadequacies of the monitor script.
> 
> Follow the top-left link from the Incubator home:
> http://incubator.apache.org/
> 
> Items coloured any shade of orange need attention.
> 
> We all need to care for these tools to assist us
> through incubation efficiently.
> 
> Would people who have an interest in each open entry
> please review the email archives to see why your
> result summary tally email was not detected.
> 
> Perhaps you forgot to prepend "[RESULT]".
> Or maybe changed the email Subject too and so
> confused the monitor.
> 
> If so then please send a followup to your VOTE thread.
> That will cause the monitor to clear its backlog.
> 
> However, i do see some that should be marked as Resolved.
> 
> So maybe the script that does this scan needs tweaks
> to pattern matching. The code is there for all
> in the top-level of Incubator SVN.
> http://incubator.apache.org/facilities.html#voting-status
> 
> Please add more instructions to the docs:
> http://incubator.apache.org/facilities.html#voting-status

I am dismayed.

Only one person bothered to follow up.

-David

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