On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 01:06 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
Josh Boyer <jwboyer(a)gmail.com> writes:
> I'd like to get some review on this proposal so that it can be presented
> at this Thursday's FESCo meeting. It can be found on the wiki at:
>
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JoshBoyer/BodhiAnonymousKarmaProposal
If KevinKofler's comment on that page is accurate:
: As far as I can tell, anonymous votes alone can't get the karma to +/-3
: in the current implementation, because "anonymous" is handled as one
: user, so anonymous votes can only get it to +1 or -1.
then if anything I'd say anon votes are being *undercounted*.
I'm not entirely sure of this. I'll ask Luke. My last conversation
with him lead me to believe that Anonymous wasn't tracked as a single
user, but I could be mistaken. If so, then I'll likely drop this
proposal all together.
Are there real examples of someone flooding a package with duplicate
anon votes? I see that a potential for gaming the system exists, but
I'm not convinced that we should reduce the usefulness of the system
for normal cases to prevent that. A manual case-by-case override might
serve better.
I have yet another proposal that puts more control of the automation
rules into the maintainer's hands anyway. That one is arguably the most
important.
Tracking of where anon votes came from would be a good idea in any
case.
That completely defeats the definition of "Anonymous".
josh