On 2019-03-12 14:47:40 -0500 (-0500), William M Edmonds wrote:
[...]
> This snuck up on us. Was
> http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-discuss/2019-March/003677.html
>  the first request for nominations? I thought we'd have more notice.

The first specific communication from the election officials was
http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-discuss/2019-March/003505.html
but it happens roughly every 6 months and is included on the
election schedule like
https://releases.openstack.org/stein/schedule.html but happy to find
out other good ways to reach out. This time was a little tricky
since the PTL election nominations opened immediately following
conclusion of the TC election, so we had to choose between making
confusing pre-nomination announcements or withholding them until the
start of the nomination week.

> I've been transitioning off of OpenStack development :( and the folks who
> are taking up that mantle with PowerVMStackers are all in India and asleep,
> so there's not a lot we can do about this in the next few hours. I believe
> there's at least one person who was going to nominate themselves, so it
> shouldn't end up leaderless. I'll try to get them to do that as quickly as
> possible.

If they're not a current contributor to any of the PowerVMStackers
repositories (from some other private conversations in which I've
been engaged I gather they may not be?) then it will need to be up
to the TC to appoint them to the post anyway.
--
Jeremy Stanley