Fuel/Elections Spring 2016

Component Leads Elections Spring 2016
DIDN'T HAPPEN DUE TO https://review.openstack.org/301194

Officials

 * Serg Melikyan (irc: sergmelikyan) smelikyan at mirantis dot com

Election System
Elections will be held using CIVS and a Condorcet algorithm (Schulze/Beatpath/CSSD variant). Any tie will be broken using Governance/TieBreaking.

Context
Component Lead: Defines architecture of a particular module or component in Fuel, resolves technical disputes in their area of responsibility. All design specs that impact a component must be approved by the corresponding component lead. See Team Structure for more details.

Fuel has three large sub-teams, with roughly comparable codebases, that need dedicated component leads:
 * fuel-library
 * fuel-web
 * fuel-ui

Timeline

 * March 25 - April 7: Open candidacy for Component leads positions
 * April 8 - April 15: Component leads elections

Electorate
The electorate for a given Component Leads election are the Foundation individual members that are also committers to repository corresponding to specific component over the last year timeframe (March 25, 2015 0:00 UTC to March 24, 2015 23:59 UTC).

The electorate is requested to confirm their email address in gerrit, review.openstack.org > Settings > Contact Information > Preferred Email, prior to March 24, 23:59 UTC so that the emailed ballots are mailed to the correct email address.

Candidates
Any member of an election electorate can propose their candidacy for the same election. Self-nomination is common, third party nomination is not required, and on-list candidate support emails are discouraged both to reduce mailing list traffic and to keep everything fair for nominees. Nominees propose their candidacy by sending an email to the openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org mailing-list, which the subject: "[fuel] lead candidacy" (for example, "[fuel] fuel-library lead candidacy"). The email can include a description of the candidate platform. The candidacy is then confirmed by one of the election officials, after verification of the electorate status of the candidate.

Confirmed candidates:

 * Fuel Library Component Lead
 * Fuel Web Component Lead
 * Fuel UI Component Lead

Results
NB: any tie should be broken using Governance/TieBreaking.