Exciting news: our bot can count votes!
We've introduced a bot to automate parts of our voting process.
Here's how it simplifies our decision-making:
Targeted Voting: It counts votes specifically from different groups within our organization like the cf-council, egc, founders, or general members.
Flexible Voting Criteria: It supports various voting methods, including Martha's rules (approve, okay, revise), unique comments, or any type of reaction.
How this works (item == PR or discussion):
- When an item is tagged with
vote/open
, the posts a summary comment and adds a link to this summary at the top of the discussion/PR description. This link also includes a visual indicator of the voting status. - The bot will periodically check the reactions (or count comments) on open items with the
vote/open
label, and will update its comment with the current status (how many votes in total, how many from the target/required group). - When the comment is updated, a GH Action sends a notification to the website repository, which will regenerate the related results page and status indicator.
The bot already sends emails to the announce list when labels (notice
, vote/open
) are added to items.
We're still fine-tuning the process for concluding a vote, but the counting mechanism is excellent.
See it in action here:
- https://github.com/commonhaus/foundation-draft/discussions/95 -- The
vote/quorum
label was added by bot, as everyone in thefounders
group responded (thank you!). A status indicator link was also added to the top of the description. - You can also have a look at the unstyled results page.
Updates to the website look and feel are coming soon. ;)