PTL Elections September/October 2014
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PTL Elections September/October 2014
Officials
- Anita Kuno (anteaya) anteaya at anteaya dot info
- Tristan Cacqueray (tristanC) tristan dot cacqueray at enovance 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.
Timeline
- September 19 - September 26, 05:59 UTC: Open candidacy to PTL positions
- September 26 - October 2: PTL elections
Elected Positions
Every program must elect a PTL. PTLs are elected for 6 months:
- Compute (Nova) - one position
- Object Storage (Swift) - one position
- Image Service (Glance) - one position
- Identity (Keystone) - one position
- Dashboard (Horizon) - one position
- Networking (Neutron) - one position
- Block Storage (Cinder) - one position
- Metering/Monitoring (Ceilometer) - one position
- Orchestration (Heat) - one position
- Database Service (Trove) - one position
- Bare metal (Ironic) - one position
- Common Libraries (Oslo) - one position
- Infrastructure - one position
- Documentation - one position
- Quality Assurance (QA) - one position
- Deployment (TripleO) - one position
- Release cycle management - one position
- Queue Service (Zaqar) - one position
- Data Processing Service (Sahara) - one position
- Key Management Service (Barbican) - one position
- DNS Services (Designate) - one position
- Shared File Systems (Manilla) - one position
Reference: http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/governance/tree/reference/programs.yaml
Electorate
Except otherwise-noted in the program description, the electorate for a given program PTL election are the Foundation individual members that are also committers for one of the program projects over the Icehouse-Juno timeframe (September 26, 2013 06:00 UTC to September 26, 2014 05:59 UTC).
The electorate is requested to confirm their email address in gerrit, review.openstack.org > Settings > Contact Information > Preferred Email, prior to September 26, 2014 05:59 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 until September 26, 05:59 UTC. No nomination is required. They do so by sending an email to the openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org mailing-list, which the subject: "PROGRAM 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.
Confirmed candidates:
- Compute (Nova)
- Object Storage (Swift)
- Image Service (Glance)
- Identity (Keystone)
- Dashboard (Horizon)
- Networking (Neutron)
- Block Storage (Cinder)
- Metering/Monitoring (Ceilometer)
- Orchestration (Heat)
- Database Service (Trove)
- Bare metal (Ironic)
- Common Libraries (Oslo)
- Infrastructure
- Documentation
- Quality Assurance (QA)
- Deployment (TripleO)
- Release cycle management
- Queue Service (Zaqar)
- Data Processing Service (Sahara)
- Key Management Service (Barbican)
- DNS Services (Designate)
- Shared File Systems (Manilla)