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Re: Winners of LDraw.org's October 2001 Model/Scene Of The Month
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Fri, 5 Oct 2001 18:04:12 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Jacob Sparre Andersen writes:
Terry:

My only problem is concerns about confusion (mine), and
timeliness. Having voting going on back-to-back would
require me to do a some juggling.

I can automate the hard parts.

Automate.  Love that word.

And would require that pages get updated promptly at the
turn of the month.  Which is sure to get messed up.
There needs to be at least a little breathing space
between things.

What about letting the computer have the lack of breathing
space?

Nano-second breathing space.

OK.  How about this;
1. Entry deadline is the last day of each month. So entry month can
   be clearly determined by the email date.
2. Voting commences by the 5th of the month, sooner if possible,
   open until the end of the month. Jacobs voting script can
   disqualify any votes made before or after the current month.
   Those 5 days give me plenty of time to reset everything, and
   keep things separated.
3. Winners announced ASAP after voting closes.

How does that sound?

I would rather choose:

* Entry deadline on the 23rd of each month.

So that gives me a week to prepare pages for the next month.  OK.

* Voting commences on the 1st of each month (assuming that
  somebody managed to prepare a voting page for that
  month).

So the prepared pages are posted prior to the 1st, and the system switches
them at the right time?

* Winners announced ASAP after voting closes.

The switching of voting pages and the forwarding of vote
counts to Terry can be handled completely automatically.

So I get mailed the results, hack the results into html, and post the winners.

Sounds like a great plan, Jacob.  Where do we start?

--Terry K --



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  Re: Winners of LDraw.org's October 2001 Model/Scene Of The Month
 
Terry: (...) But only five days in February. (...) Yes. (...) Yes. (...) * Switch naming scheme for the voting pages, so the file names include year and month. * Create a "sorry, we're not ready for voting yet" page, which the server can put in (...) (23 years ago, 6-Oct-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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  Re: Winners of LDraw.org's October 2001 Model/Scene Of The Month
 
Terry: (...) I can automate the hard parts. (...) What about letting the computer have the lack of breathing space? (...) I would rather choose: * Entry deadline on the 23rd of each month. * Voting commences on the 1st of each month (assuming that (...) (23 years ago, 4-Oct-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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