<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 9:14 AM, Thierry Carrez <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thierry@openstack.org" target="_blank">thierry@openstack.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Eoghan Glynn wrote:<br>
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However, the turnout continues to slide, dipping below 20% for<br>
the first time:<br>
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Election | Electorate (delta %) | Votes | Turnout (delta %)<br>
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Oct '13 | 1106 | 342 | 30.92<br>
Apr '14 | 1510 (+36.52) | 448 | 29.69 (-4.05)<br>
Oct '14 | 1893 (+25.35) | 506 | 26.73 (-9.91)<br>
Apr '15 | 2169 (+14.58) | 548 | 25.27 (-5.48)<br>
Oct '15 | 2759 (+27.20) | 619 | 22.44 (-11.20)<br>
Apr '16 | 3284 (+19.03) | 652 | 19.85 (-11.51)<br>
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This ongoing trend of a decreasing proportion of the electorate<br>
participating in TC elections is a concern.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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Thierry Carrez (ttx)</font></span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Ryan Brady<div><a href="mailto:rbrady@redhat.com" target="_blank">rbrady@redhat.com</a> <br></div></div></div>
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