[openstack-dev] [elections][tc]Thoughts on the TC election process

Anita Kuno anteaya at anteaya.info
Tue Oct 11 18:02:15 UTC 2016


On 2016-10-11 01:43 PM, Ed Leafe wrote:
> On Oct 11, 2016, at 12:26 PM, Anita Kuno <anteaya at anteaya.info> wrote:
>>> Instead of two week process, make it three:
>> Again as I replied to Ed's post, I think we can find options that fit in the current timeframe.
> Why do we need a week to nominate? Open it up a month before the election, and close it a week before. Or open it for two days, and close it a week before. I don’t understand why, other than procrastination, we need such a long period. If you’re serious about serving, throw you hat into the ring.
>
>
> -- Ed Leafe
>
To be honest with you I also questioned why the nomination period had to 
be the length it did, until I was running elections. Turns out people's 
lives, vacation, travel, all those meetings, are such that they need it 
to be at least the length it is in order to run if they want to run. I 
had an instance where someone posted their nomination 10 minutes prior 
to the deadline. I pm'd them and asked, were you just being lazy or 
what? Turns out their work schedule that week was such that the only 
time they could take to compose their nomination and post it was just 
before the deadline. So now I understand firsthand about why it has to 
be at least that long of a period for nomination.

If you make the nomination period longer, you require a longer 
commitment from the election officials. Officiating an election is a 
commitment. The election is top priority at that time. Given the 
expectation around officiating I personally don't think it is fair to 
extend that expectation without it being an actual solution to an actual 
problem.

I don't know what issue we would be fixing by changing the nomination 
period.

Thanks,
Anita.



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