I can shed some light on the challenges here. This year's election will run with the Condorcet Internet Voting System <https://civs.cs.cornell.edu/>, a system pretty much used widely with other OSS projects/foundations. As with any software, Condorcet has its limitations which it shares in the FAQ <https://civs.cs.cornell.edu/faq.html> - basically it is not stress tested for 6 figures voting and suggests it would be better to have sanitized email lists for voting.
For Jenkins elections the eligible voter criteria is very inclusive i.e. Eligible voters are those who have an account on jenkins-ci.org prior to Sep 1 (See Board Election Process <https://wiki.jenkins.io/display/JENKINS/Board+Election+Process> and 2019 update <http://meetings.jenkins-ci.org/jenkins-meeting/2019/jenkins-meeting.2019-09-11-18.04.html> ). Being the massively successful project that it is there are ~100,000 accounts that meet this criteria. In practice some of these accounts are dormant,bots, etc. The reality of those who will engage in the election is likely far, far smaller (3 figures or more would be awesome!). So what is likely now that we reach out to the potential voter base and request folks to opt-in to the election in order to receive a ballot. Users who do not respond are by default opt-out. The expectation is that this process cuts down the voter numbers but also leaves us with a set of highly engaged voters. Additionally it would be good to identify this group for CDF-related elections <https://github.com/cdfoundation/foundation/issues/13> too. There are a couple of ways we can do this in practice, each with pros & cons, and likely we should allow a suitable amount of time for folks to register. The original election dates were set out with an expectation these issues could be resolved beforehand but given folks involved are juggling multiple responsibilities,things did not work out in a timely way. I'm sure we'll figure out something practical yet effective and make this election happen - just not as soon as originally hoped (story of my life :). Tracy On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 9:08 AM Marky Jackson <marky.r.jack...@gmail.com> wrote: > KK, > Understood. > I think it would be a good exercise post-election to have an open > retrospective. Among the many reasons, I also feel it will give the > community an opportunity to see how a project of this magnitude handled > things like this and others in the open. > Thanks kindly for all you and other do for Jenkins, I for one am truly > thankful. > > { > "regards" : { > "name" : “marky”, > "phone" : "+1 (408) 464 2965 <+1%20(408)%20464%202965>”, > "email" : “marky.r.jack...@gmail.com", > "team" : “jackson5“, > “role” : “software engineer" > } > } > > On Oct 15, 2019, at 6:02 AM, Kohsuke Kawaguchi <k...@kohsuke.org> wrote: > > > The proposed time table that we published earlier had Oct 14th as the > start of voting, but due to a logistical challenge of running a vote with > this many people, we need a bit more time to sort this out. > > So the start of voting will be delayed. I currently do not have an ETA, > but hopefully it shouldn't take too long. > > -- > Kohsuke Kawaguchi > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Jenkins Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to jenkinsci-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/CAN4CQ4zGX0zaavFELOovrbtr%3DoefOXrTEKDan-Mu2Z4TMTOYcA%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/CAN4CQ4zGX0zaavFELOovrbtr%3DoefOXrTEKDan-Mu2Z4TMTOYcA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Jenkins Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to jenkinsci-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/4EBF2DBC-16B3-4CC3-BE05-C716AC2AA436%40gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/4EBF2DBC-16B3-4CC3-BE05-C716AC2AA436%40gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to jenkinsci-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/CACTaz6pphdCm4Vgbt9%3DhE9VHLkQuUN%2BiEfVpJHbGaP8HiJrEUg%40mail.gmail.com.
