On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 9:14 AM, Thierry Carrez <thie...@openstack.org> wrote:
> Eoghan Glynn wrote: > >> However, the turnout continues to slide, dipping below 20% for >>> the first time: >>> >> >> Election | Electorate (delta %) | Votes | Turnout (delta %) >> =========================================================== >> Oct '13 | 1106 | 342 | 30.92 >> Apr '14 | 1510 (+36.52) | 448 | 29.69 (-4.05) >> Oct '14 | 1893 (+25.35) | 506 | 26.73 (-9.91) >> Apr '15 | 2169 (+14.58) | 548 | 25.27 (-5.48) >> Oct '15 | 2759 (+27.20) | 619 | 22.44 (-11.20) >> Apr '16 | 3284 (+19.03) | 652 | 19.85 (-11.51) >> >> >>> This ongoing trend of a decreasing proportion of the electorate >>> participating in TC elections is a concern. >>> >> > One way to look at it is that every cycle (mostly due to the habit of > giving summit passes to recent contributors) we have more and more > one-patch contributors (more than 600 in Mitaka), and those usually are not > really interested in voting... So the electorate number is a bit inflated, > resulting in an apparent drop in turnout. > > It would be interesting to run the same analysis but taking only >=3 patch > contributors as "expected voters" and see if the turnout still drops as > much. > > Long term I'd like to remove the summit pass perk (or no longer link it to > "one commit"). It will likely result in a drop in contributors numbers > (gasp), but a saner electorate. Increase the commit requirements, but don't remove the summit pass perk. You'll add a barrier for ATCs and see fewer of them at summits. > > > -- > Thierry Carrez (ttx) > > > __________________________________________________________________________ > 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 > -- Ryan Brady rbr...@redhat.com
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