Board vote handles session expiry very poorly
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	May 22 2015, 8:22 PM

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From IRC:

1:13:57 PM AaronSchulz "You must log in to vote in this election "
1:14:05 PM AaronSchulz "This wiki is maintained only to host elections. There should be no need to edit it, and you do not need to be logged in to vote."
1:14:08 PM – AaronSchulz sighs
1:15:58 PM Hazard-SJ AaronSchulz: That's some wording, lol
1:17:02 PM mutante AaronSchulz: maybe it's an election about requiring login or not
1:17:30 PM AaronSchulz no it was just a poor session expiry error that didn't explain
1:17:40 PM  AaronSchulz and didn't bounce the form either, but just had the error text
1:17:51 PM mutanteheh, ok:)
1:17:54 PM AaronSchulz so I had to open another tab and recheck the radios to match the first tab and resubmit

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aaron created this task.May 22 2015, 8:22 PM

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Being welcoming to newcomers is an issue in this board election, and this is yet another example of poor software development, not properly tested, from the WMF, which will I guarantee put off newcomers. How was this not caught in automated testing?? It's 2015!

@Greenrd: Please feel free to discuss general software development practices (not directly related to fixing the specific bug this task is about) on appropriate mailing lists. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bug_management/Phabricator_etiquette for recommendations. Thanks for your understanding.

Varnent moved this task from Backlog to Future WMF Election Requests on the MediaWiki-extensions-SecurePoll board.Jul 30 2015, 9:24 PM

Varnent added a project: Elections.Jul 30 2015, 9:30 PM

Varnent set Security to None.

Varnent moved this task from Backlog to SecurePoll on the Elections board.

jrbs moved this task from Future WMF Election Requests to Backlog on the MediaWiki-extensions-SecurePoll board.Sep 23 2022, 10:51 PM

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Board vote handles session expiry very poorly
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