<p dir="ltr">I agree with Thierry Carrez , I think this would help.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Along with this, we need to motivate new joiners to continue with openstack.<br>
Most of them leave earlier or participate less due to some demotivating factors like coding is easy but getting things reviewed is much difficult. :)</p>
<p dir="ltr">In every group we have aome extra ordinary guys who help new contributors join and continue with, but some are just enjoying corehood.<br>
May be we should also make core members on rotation basis to give equal chances to everyone. This will also motivate those who are working for openstack in their part time.</p>
<p dir="ltr">A lot of other suggestions as well, but mail growing longer..:)</p>
<p dir="ltr">Best Regards,<br>
Sheel Rana</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Apr 8, 2016 6:46 PM, "Thierry Carrez" <<a href="mailto:thierry@openstack.org">thierry@openstack.org</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><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>
</blockquote>
<br>
Election | Electorate (delta %) | Votes | Turnout (delta %)<br>
===========================================================<br>
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>
<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<br>
This ongoing trend of a decreasing proportion of the electorate<br>
participating in TC elections is a concern.<br>
</blockquote></blockquote>
<br>
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>
<br>
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>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
-- <br>
Thierry Carrez (ttx)<br>
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