Hello! On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 9:39 PM Tony Breeds <t...@bakeyournoodle.com> wrote:
> Hello all, > With the PTL elections behind us it's time to start looking at the > TC election. Our charter[1] says: > > The election is held no later than 6 weeks prior to each OpenStack > Summit (on or before ‘S-6’ week), with elections held open for no less > than four business days. > > Assuming we have the same structure that gives us a timeline of: > > Summit is at: 2018-11-13 > Latest possible completion is at: 2018-10-02 > Moving back to Tuesday: 2018-10-02 > TC Election from 2018-09-25T23:45 to 2018-10-02T23:45 > TC Campaigning from 2018-09-18T23:45 to 2018-09-25T23:45 > TC Nominations from 2018-09-11T23:45 to 2018-09-18T23:45 > > This puts the bulk of the nomination period during the PTG, which is > sub-optimal as the nominations cause a distraction from the PTG but more > so because the campaigning will coincide with travel home, and some > community members take vacation along with the PTG. > > So I'd like to bring up the idea of moving the election forward a > little so that it's actually the campaigning period that overlaps with > the PTG: > > TC Election from 2018-09-18T23:45 to 2018-09-27T23:45 > TC Campaigning from 2018-09-06T23:45 to 2018-09-18T23:45 > TC Nominations from 2018-08-30T23:45 to 2018-09-06T23:45 > +2! > This gives us longer campaigning and election periods. > > There are some advantages to doing this: > > * A panel style Q&A could be held formally or informally ;P > * There's improved scope for for incoming, outgoing and staying put TC > members to interact in a high bandwidth way. > * In personi/private discussions with TC candidates/members. > > However it isn't without downsides: > > * Election fatigue, We've just had the PTL elections and the UC > elections are currently running. Less break before the TC elections > may not be a good thing. > Simultaneously, would be nice to get it done with. > * TC candidates that can't travel to the PTG could be disadvantaged > We also can and should post things on the ML for longer discussion as the 'debate' likely wouldn't be much longer than over lunch one day. > * The campaigning would all happen at the PTG and not on the mailing > list disadvantaging community members not at the PTG. > > So thoughts? > I think this is a good plan :) Ready to +2 the config change as soon as I see it. > > Yours Tony. > > [1] https://governance.openstack.org/tc/reference/charter.html > __________________________________________________________________________ > OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev -Kendall (diablo_rojo)
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