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• Broken Voting Model (Score:2)

  by davorg (18)

  I haven't voted yet because I'm hoping that ActiveState will fix the voting script and allow me to only vote for categories that I'm qualified to vote in. I don't want PHP programmers who know nothing about Perl voting for one of the Perl programmers at random. It makes a complete mockery of the voting.

  I guess you could argue that the random votes would be evenly distributed but I really don't think we can rely on that.

  Besides, waiting for them to fix it will give me time to decide between Schwern and Mat
  • Re:Broken Voting Model (Score:1)

    by pdcawley (485)

    That's easy. I voted for Schwern in Perl and Matts in XSLT.
    • Re:Broken Voting Model (Score:1)

      by pudge (1)

      Yeah, I saw this and thought that unfortunately Matts' votes might get split between the two categories, *reducing* his chance of winning either one. I don't think this is as much of a flaw as the "vote for people you don't know anything about" thing, though.
      • Re:Broken Voting Model (Score:1)

        by pdcawley (485)

        I confess that in my case I'm not splitting my vote. If Matt were only nominated in the Perl category I'd still have voted for Schwern (What with having nominated him in the first place and all...)
        • Re:Broken Voting Model (Score:1)

          by pudge (1)

          I'm also guessing that, if not you, than most Perl people, will vote for Matts for XSLT, not knowing any of the other names.
          • Re:Broken Voting Model (Score:2)

            by Matts (1087)

            A [cpan.org] lot [cpan.org] of [cpan.org] my [cpan.org] modules [cpan.org] have [cpan.org] nothing [cpan.org] to [cpan.org] do [cpan.org] with [cpan.org] XML [cpan.org].

             ;-)
  • Re:Broken Voting Model (Score:2)

    by 2shortplanks (968)

    Looks like you did the right thing. Just got a mail from ActiveState saying that "voting
    in each category is no longer mandatory"
    
• I totally agreed (Score:3, Interesting)

  by Damian (784) on 2002.07.03 6:54 (#10186)

  
  I voted for Schwern.
  Why? Because as I understood the Award, it is supposed to be for the 'unsung heroes'. And Damian, for all he's a great guy, superb speaker top notch programmer and trainer, isn't exactly unsung. Hell, he has an Award named after him.
  

  
  

   ...which is why, late last night when I found out about the nomination and the criteria for it, I asked ActiveState to remove my name from the list of nominees.

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• If Testing Weren't Enough... (Score:1)

  by chromatic (983)

  ... consider that Schwern has also taken on maintenance of MakeMaker and Test::Harness. (Some of those MakeMaker modules predated File::Spec, and, if you hadn't read it, you wouldn't believe the convoluted inheritance scheme.) That's a job almost as thankless as being the pumpking.
• oh, well... (Score:2)

  by jhi (318)

  I won't be voting for anyone in the Perl category since three out of five hardly count for "unsung" heroes, and the other two don't say anything to me, sorry  :-)