Governance/TCElectionsFall2012
Election officials
Election officials cannot run for the election they are an official for. Proposed election officials are:
- Duncan McGreggor
- Stefano Maffulli
- Thierry Carrez
PTL Elections
Timeline
- Aug 30 - Sep 5: Open candidacy to PTL positions
- Sep 7 - 13: PTL elections
Number of elections and seats
- Nova PTL (one position)
- Swift PTL (one position)
- Glance PTL (one position)
- Horizon PTL (one position)
- Keystone PTL (one position)
- Quantum PTL (one position)
- Cinder PTL (one position)
- openstack-common PTL (one position)
Electorate
The electorate for a given project PTL election are the Foundation individual members that are also committers for said project over the Essex-Folsom timeframe, up to 23:59 PST on August 29, 2012.
Candidates
Any member of an election electorate can propose his candidacy for the same election. No nomination is required. They do so by sending an email to the openstack@lists.launchpad.net mailing-list, which the subject: "PROJECT PTL candidacy" (for example for Glance: "Glance PTL 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.
Technical committee direct members Election
Timeline
- Sep 13 - 19: Open candidacy to TC directly-elected seats
- Sep 21 - 27: TC direct seats election
Number of elections and seats
- Technical committee directly-elected seats (3 positions)
Electorate
The electorate for the TC direct seats election are the Foundation individual members that are also committers for an official OpenStack project (as defined here), over the Essex-Folsom timeframe, up to 23:59 PST on August 29, 2012.
Candidates
Any member of the TC direct seats election electorate can propose his candidacy for this election. No nomination is required. They do so by sending an email to the openstack@lists.launchpad.net mailing-list, which the subject: "TC 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.
Voting process
As for all previous PTL/PPB elections, we will use the Condorcet method, under the Schulze (Beatpath) algorithm. The CIVS online voting platform will be used. Elections should be left open for a minimum of 5 business days.
Tie breaking
Condorcet may result in ties, which should be broken fairly and in a reproducible manner. We will use the hash of a string describing the tie results to determine the tie winners (more details coming up).