Tim Bell wrote:
Are there some stats on the active electorate sizes ?
I have the impression that the voting AUCs were a smaller number of people than the contributors so a single election may result in less total representation compared to today’s UC & TC.
I don't have the exact numbers around, but yes, there are many more ATCs (voters in the current TC election) than AUCs (voters in the current UC election). So it's a valid concern that people with more of an operator background would have trouble getting elected if the electorate contains more people with more of a developer background. But I think it's a fallacy. There is plenty of overlap. Most engaged operators are already ATCs, and more and more contributors have operational experience. Data points show that when people with more operational background have nominated themselves for the TC in recent elections, they got elected. 10 of the 13 TC seats are currently occupied by people with some decent amount of operational experience. So yes, we clearly need to communicate that people with operational/usage experience are wanted in that new body. We need to communicate that there is a change, and a single body will now steward all aspects of the open source projects and not just the upstream aspects. But I'm not obsessing on the fact that a single election would somehow suppress operator voices... The problem recently has more been to find enough people willing to step up and spend extra time stewarding OpenStack, than to actually get elected. -- Thierry Carrez (ttx)