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build: make it easier to start a new election
Signed-off-by: Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org>
-rw-r--r-- | README.md | 37 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Votify.pm | 5 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | election-details.template | 8 | ||||
-rwxr-xr-x | populate-election.sh | 74 |
4 files changed, 108 insertions, 16 deletions
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ This handles all elections per the [Gentoo Elections](https://wiki.gentoo.org/wi The Condercet system is used, and most of this repository exists just to house the actual data needed to run each election, such as the start/stop time, -eligable voters, blank ballot etc. +eligible voters, blank ballot etc. Completed elections are available in the `completed/` directory. @@ -28,32 +28,43 @@ Instructions 1. Setup an election: --------------------- To create a new election, make a top-level directory with the exact name of -the election. Usually in the format of `{council,trustees}-YYYYMM`. +the election. Usually in the format of `{council,trustees}-YYYYMM`. All of the +following files should be in that directory. Let `${election_name}` be the name of the election. Any member of the elections project or infra may set this up. -- `Votify.pm`: symlink to `../Votify.pm` for tooling -- `ballot-${election_name}` - One entry per line, in alphabetical order. - The special candidate `_reopen_nominations` is valid in some elections. - The ballot order will be randomized per candidate, at voting time. - `election-details`: - key-value file with details about the election. + key-value file with details about the election, see `election-details.template` `name`: exact election name `startDate`, `endDate`: start & end time in UTC - `officials`: election officials, including the infra contact, (prohibited from being candidates) + `officials`: election officials, including the infra contact (prohibited from being candidates) `voters`: URL to list of members who may cast a ballot `ballot`: URL to sample ballot + `url`: URL to the Elections page for this specific election (optional, newer) + +Using the above file, and the `populate-election.sh` script, the remaining +files are created (pulling from URLs as needed.) + +- `Votify.pm`: symlink to `../Votify.pm` for tooling +- `ballot-${election_name}` + One entry per line, in alphabetical order. + The special candidate `_reopen_nominations` is valid in some elections. + The ballot order will be randomized per candidate, at voting time. - `officials-${election_name}`: list of election officials, including the infra contact - `start-${election_name}`: election start time, as epoch seconds. - `stop-${election_name}`: election end time, as epoch seconds. - `voters-${election_name}`: list of members who may cast a ballot -For developers, the one liner, worked example below, run on woodpecker, works. -ldapsearch -ZZ -x -D uid=neddyseagoon,ou=devs,dc=gentoo,dc=org -W '(&(gentooStatus=active)(!(gentooAccess=infra-system.group)))' uid gentoojoin -LLL | grep "^uid" | sed -e "s/^uid: //" | sort -n > voters-council-202306.txt -Some fine tuning to remove developers added to roll call after the cut off -may be required. +For developers, the one liner, worked example below, run on woodpecker, can create the `voters` file. +``` +ldapsearch -ZZ -x -w '' -S uid -LLL \ + '(&(gentooStatus=active)(!(gentooAccess=infra-system.group)))' \ + uid gentoojoin \ + |awk -F ': ' '/uid:/ {print $2}' > voters-council-202406 +``` +Some fine tuning to remove developers added to roll call after the cut off +may be required. Populate the files, commit & push to Git. At the start time, an official should verify that the ballot works. Ideally a non-infra official, who then @@ -1,6 +1,5 @@ -# $Id: Votify.pm,v 1.5 2005/05/16 23:58:09 agriffis Exp $ -# -# Copyright 2005-2016 Gentoo Foundation +#!/usr/bin/perl +# Copyright 1999-2024 Gentoo Authors # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 # # votify.pm: common classes for votify and countify diff --git a/election-details.template b/election-details.template new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0df3612 --- /dev/null +++ b/election-details.template @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +name: __TYPE__-__YYYYMM__ +startDate: __YYYY__-MM-DD 00:00:00 UTC +endDate: __YYYY__-MM-DD 23:59:59 UTC +officials: __OFFICIALS__ +voters: https://projects.gentoo.org/elections/__TYPE__/__YYYY__/voters-__TYPE__-__YYYYMM__.txt +ballot: https://projects.gentoo.org/elections/__TYPE__/__YYYY__/ballot-__TYPE__-__YYYYMM__.txt +url: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Elections/__TYPE__/__YYYYMM__ + diff --git a/populate-election.sh b/populate-election.sh new file mode 100755 index 0000000..bbfbc60 --- /dev/null +++ b/populate-election.sh @@ -0,0 +1,74 @@ +#!/bin/bash +# Copyright 2024-2024 Gentoo Authors +# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 +# +# populate-election.sh: Create election files based on the election-details file. +# + +ELECTION=${1%/} +fullpath=$(readlink -f "./${ELECTION}") + +warn() { + echo "$@" 1>&2 +} + +die() { + echo "$@" 1>&2 + exit 1 +} + +if [[ -z "${ELECTION}" ]]; then + die "usage: $(basename "$0") ELECTION-NAME" +fi + +details="${fullpath}"/election-details + +if ! test -f "${details}" ; then + warn "Could not find $ELECTION at ${details}: missing file - generating from template" + mkdir -p "${ELECTION}"/ + cat election-details.template >"${ELECTION}"/election-details + _type=${ELECTION//*-} + _yyyymm=${ELECTION//-*} + sed -i \ + -e "s/__TYPE__/${_type}/g" \ + -e "s/__YYYYMM__/${_yyyymm}/g" \ + -e "s/__YYYY__/${_yyyymm:0:4}/g" \ + "${ELECTION}"/election-details +fi + +if ! grep -sq -x -e "name: ${ELECTION}" "${details}" ; then + die "Could not find $ELECTION at ${details}: bad content" +fi + +for f in name startDate endDate officials voters ballot url ; do + awk -v f=$f -F ': ' '($1==f){print $2}' "${details}" |grep -E -e '.{6,}' -sq || die "$ELECTION: missing field $f in $details" +done + +for f in voters ballot officials ; do + k1=${f/:*} + k2=${f/*:} + d=$ELECTION/${k1}-$ELECTION + v=$(awk -v f="$k2" -F ': ' '($1==f){print $2}' "${details}") + if [[ "$v" =~ "https://" ]]; then + curl --fail -Lsq -o "${d}" "$v" || warn "Could not fetch ${f} from $v" + else + tr -s ', ' '\n' <<<"$v" |fmt -1 |sort >"$d" + fi +done + +for f in start:startDate stop:endDate ; do + k1=${f/:*} + k2=${f/*:} + d=$ELECTION/${k1}-$ELECTION + v=$(awk -v f="$k2" -F ': ' '($1==f){print $2}' "${details}") + date +%s -d "$v" >"${d}" +done + +if [ -f "${ELECTION}/ballot-${ELECTION}" ]; then + overlap_candidate_official=$(grep -x -f "${ELECTION}/officials-${ELECTION}" "${ELECTION}/ballot-${ELECTION}" -o) + if [[ -n "${overlap_candidate_official}" ]]; then + die "ERROR: One or more candidates are also election officials: ${overlap_candidate_official}" + fi +fi + +ln -sf "../Votify.pm" "${ELECTION}/" |