[eclipse.org-members-committers] Help name the 2011 Eclipse Simultaneous

[David M Williams <david_williams@xxxxxxxxxx>]

We are going to have a recount. 

As previously stated, the Eclipse Planning
Council is trying to come up with a name for next year's Simultaneous Release
and is asking for input from the Eclipse Community. Accordingly, we collected
suggestions for names, and then set up a quick poll to get some quantifiable
data about preferred names.

But, it has come to our attention that
some people voted more than once. More specifically, many many many times,
as if from a script. While our polling service was known not to be secure,
we naively assumed people would participate in the spirit of a friendly
close-knit community. Unfortunately, we do not know the full extent or
pattern of the "ballot stuffing" since the polling service was
not set up to track such detail. Nor could it, without a unique log in.
So, we have enhanced the polling service to require a log in ... same as
bugzilla account ... and would like to try again to collect some meaningful
data about what name the community prefers. We do care about the community's
opinion and felt it would be a disservice to not re-do the polling in a
more accurate way. The end result might be similar to the polling we just
went through ... or, might reveal a completely different preference, when
everyone just votes once. Since we are already late in the development
cycle, we will allow only one week for voting, to May 12 for the first
phase, and then until May 19, if a run-off vote is required.

You can vote at this URL: http://www.eclipse.org/helios/planning/poll2011name.php

And read the back ground, and pros and
cons of the candidate names at https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=306864

Thanks,