[FFmpeg-devel] [ANNOUNCE] upcoming GA vote

[Thilo Borgmann]

Am 25.10.23 um 21:31 schrieb Thilo Borgmann via ffmpeg-devel:
> Am 25.10.23 um 19:39 schrieb Rémi Denis-Courmont:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Le 25 octobre 2023 18:52:31 GMT+03:00, Thilo Borgmann via ffmpeg-devel <ffmpeg-devel at ffmpeg.org> a écrit :
>>> Am 25.10.23 um 16:23 schrieb Thilo Borgmann via ffmpeg-devel:
>>>> Am 25.10.23 um 16:22 schrieb Rémi Denis-Courmont:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I am not on the GA, but there are probably people with my locale on the GA. And it seems that the voting system hits a Perl syntax error if your browser locale is set to French.
>>>>
>>>> Can you send me a screenshot?
>>>
>>> Thanks. That appears to be a perl bug, Not going to touch that on the server atm.
>>>
>>> So sorry, switch to english or use another device for now.
>>
>> That seems to makes no difference (Firefox on Android). The language setting seem to only change the GUI, not whatever the Perl CGI uses (Accept-Language header?).
>>
>> Objectively, it really does not matter insofar as we are dealing solely with non-GA members such as I. But if I were to play devil's advocate, you may be serving on a plate a pretext for some future dissatisfied voters to call the voting process invalid later, or worse, maybe even allege xenophobic discrimination (this does *not* represent my opinion and is *not* meant to constitute an actual serious accusation). Either way it might be a problem in the particular context of this project, especially in light of the abundance of formality from Anton's original post.
>>
>> Not that I'd have a solution. Feel free to ignore.
> 
> Not a perl "bug" but per-se but something changed about validity of my(my..., my...) constructs.
> 
> There is a patch for the CIVS source which is two years old [1]. That perl "update" seems to have happened after our last vote (where this issue was non-existant afaict) and today.
> 
> I'll try to find some time tomorrow to adapt the source on the server and let you know to retest your vote.
> 
> Should effect french, hungarian and italian.

Works for Remi now, shall be fixed now.

Thanks,
Thilo