<html><body><p><tt><font size="2">Jeremy Stanley <fungi@yuggoth.org> wrote on 03/12/2019 04:07:15 PM:<br>> On 2019-03-12 14:47:40 -0500 (-0500), William M Edmonds wrote:<br>> [...]<br>> > This snuck up on us. Was<br>> > <a href="http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-discuss/2019-March/">http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-discuss/2019-March/</a><br>> 003677.html<br>> > the first request for nominations? I thought we'd have more notice.<br>> <br>> The first specific communication from the election officials was<br>> <a href="http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-discuss/2019-March/003505.html">http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-discuss/2019-March/003505.html</a><br>> but it happens roughly every 6 months and is included on the<br>> election schedule like<br>> <a href="https://releases.openstack.org/stein/schedule.html">https://releases.openstack.org/stein/schedule.html</a> but happy to find<br>> out other good ways to reach out. This time was a little tricky<br>> since the PTL election nominations opened immediately following<br>> conclusion of the TC election, so we had to choose between making<br>> confusing pre-nomination announcements or withholding them until the<br>> start of the nomination week.<br></font></tt><br><tt><font size="2">yeah, I should have probably looked for that and setup a calendar reminder.</font></tt><br><br><tt><font size="2">A couple things we could potentially do in future (via script?):</font></tt><br><tt><font size="2"> * ping the appropriate IRC channel</font></tt><br><tt><font size="2"> * email the current PTLs directly</font></tt><br><tt><font size="2"><br>> > I've been transitioning off of OpenStack development :( and the folks who<br>> > are taking up that mantle with PowerVMStackers are all in India and asleep,<br>> > so there's not a lot we can do about this in the next few hours. I believe<br>> > there's at least one person who was going to nominate themselves, so it<br>> > shouldn't end up leaderless. I'll try to get them to do that as quickly as<br>> > possible.<br>> <br>> If they're not a current contributor to any of the PowerVMStackers<br>> repositories (from some other private conversations in which I've<br>> been engaged I gather they may not be?) then it will need to be up<br>> to the TC to appoint them to the post anyway.<br></font></tt><br><tt><font size="2">Divya has put in a nomination now [1], but it was past the deadline. I believe she meets the criteria and would make a great PTL.</font></tt><br><br><tt><font size="2">[1] </font></tt><a href="https://review.openstack.org/#/c/643003/"><tt><font size="2">https://review.openstack.org/#/c/643003/</font></tt></a><BR>
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