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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 9:19 AM, Ferenc Szekely <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ferenc@maemo.org">ferenc@maemo.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote">Hello,<br>
<div class="im"><br>On 11/08/2011 03:28 PM, robert bauer wrote:<br>> Ferenc,<br>><br>> Thanks for your message. If staggering the vote is not enough to reduce<br>> server load, please go ahead and use a simple filter based on karma and<br>
> length of community membership so that the server load will be manageable.<br>><br></div>Our community has 660 people with karma >= 100. That's a lot less than<br>57000. Tuning the mailing script (ie. 1 email per person) should not be<br>
a big deal, though I have not looked that part yet.<br>
<div class="im"><br>> The other suggestions are appreciated. While there is merit in more<br>> selectively reducing the email recipients to those N900 users most<br>> likely to have tested the submissions, or at least those who are<br>
> currently active in the community, as indicated previously, the priority<br>> now is to get the vote completed and those additional factors, even if<br>> possible, are likely to burden and slow the process. Of course, if I am<br>
> mistaken in this regard, then Ferenc can point that out.<br>><br></div>I can change the mailing script if the council agrees to introduce the<br>karma filter.<br><br></blockquote>
<div><font color="#ff0000">On behalf of Council, I authorize the karma filter.</font></div>
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<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote">> Rob Bauer (SD69)<br>><br>Cheers,<br>ferenc<br><br>ps: <a href="http://maemo.org/profile/list/" target="_blank">http://maemo.org/profile/list/</a><br>
There are 22 pages exactly that list people having karma >= 100. Each<br>page has 30 rows.<br>
<div class="im"><br>> On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 5:22 AM, Ferenc Szekely <<a href="mailto:ferenc@maemo.org">ferenc@maemo.org</a><br></div>
<div class="im">> <mailto:<a href="mailto:ferenc@maemo.org">ferenc@maemo.org</a>>> wrote:<br>><br>> Hi,<br>><br>> Before the voting part for the 2011 coding competition really gets out<br>
> of hand I decided to check the situation.<br>><br>> For elections in the past we always filtered the number of people who<br>> were eligible to vote. The filtering was done based on the karma value.<br>
> This filtering ensured that we are not sending out tens of thousands of<br>> emails in a batch. The 2011 coding competition now requires us to send a<br>> minimum amount of ~57000 emails (which is already a lot). This number is<br>
> valid only if we change the mailing scripts and send 1 email per person<br>> for all the 9 categories they can vote for. If we don't change the<br>> mailing system then it means > 513k emails.<br>
><br>> This is not going to happen as long as I am root on the maemo servers.<br>> We are not going to become a spammer organization no matter what.<br>><br>> I would suggest to revise the plans and take this voting to a web based<br>
> system.<br>><br>> ferenc<br>> --<br></div>> <a href="http://maemo.org/" target="_blank">maemo.org</a> <<a href="http://maemo.org/" target="_blank">http://maemo.org</a>> sysadmin, developer<br>
> email: <a href="mailto:ferenc@maemo.org">ferenc@maemo.org</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:ferenc@maemo.org">ferenc@maemo.org</a>><br>
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