[tc] Questions for TC Candidates

Ed Leafe ed at leafe.com
Tue Feb 26 15:19:15 UTC 2019


On Feb 25, 2019, at 8:01 PM, Zane Bitter <zbitter at redhat.com> wrote:
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> This is a problem for OpenStack, for at least the reason you mentioned above: TC members don't have much of a mandate if they didn't actually have an election.

That’s a good point: do you (all candidates; not just Zane) see the election as being a mandate for specific things? Candidates run on different platforms, expressing different desires for changes they would like to make. Do you see the result of a TC election as a mandate to go out and do those things, and not to do the things that the losing candidates espoused?

The counter, and extremely cynical, argument here is that people don’t really weigh the specific proposals of the individual candidates and choose those most in alignment with their feelings, but instead choose people who they either a) worked with at some point and didn’t find them to be a jerk, or b) have seen their name around for a while, and figure they must know what’s going on, or c) have the same employer, or d) some other non-issue-related reason. If this cynical point of view is closer to how you see reality, does that represent a mandate at all?


-- Ed Leafe








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