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Thanks for the link, Anita!

These are definitely good guidelines, but there are a couple problems with
doing the election exactly as described in the document:  It looks like to
generate the list of voters, it recommends using the list of people who
have committed code to the project in the last year. As this project is
just getting bootstrapped, obviously we have no committed code yet.

It might be possible to use mailing list activity (in [Neutron][LBaaS] in
particular) to generate this list, but also keep in mind that not everyone
who has been active on the mailing list is interested in contributing to
Octavia. For example, while Doug Wiegley has made great contributions to
Neutron LBaaS, it's probably a conflict of interest for him to participate
in Octavia, since he works for a load balancer vendor.

I do agree that the election should not be conducted by one of the
candidates in any case. What do y'all think, as far as determining the list
of who should be able to vote and/or nominate candidates?

Thanks,
Stephen



On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 3:37 PM, Anita Kuno <anteaya at anteaya.info> wrote:

> On 06/19/2014 06:29 PM, Craig Tracey wrote:
> > I'd like to nominate Brandon Logan and Doug Wiegley as core members.
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 6:18 PM, Stephen Balukoff <sbalukoff at bluebox.net
> >
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Howdy y'all!
> >>
> >> Among other things that happened at the Neutron LBaaS mid-cycle
> hackathon,
> >> we have now put together process around, and established Octavia as a
> >> stackforge project. For those just joining us, Octavia is going to
> become
> >> an open-source operator-grade load balancer implementation. It will
> consume
> >> the Neutron LBaaS driver API, and be a consumer of Neutron, Nova, and
> other
> >> OpenStack APIs to deliver load balancing services. (It is not meant to
> >> supplant Neutron LBaaS, or be a general solution which can work with any
> >> vendor back-end. Think of it as another load balancer vendor.)
> >>
> >> Anyway, since we want to run this project with the intent of eventually
> >> being incubated, we'd like to get it off the ground using standard
> >> OpenStack methodologies, processes, and best practices. This also means
> >> that we need a PTL and team of core developers who will have +2 voting
> >> status on code and spec reviews for the project.
> >>
> >> I'd like to throw my hat into the ring for PTL.
> >>
> >> I'm not sure how elections on this should work (other than being open).
> >> But in any case, I also think that core developers for this project
> should
> >> probably come from the companies who have been active in the discussion
> of
> >> LBaaS in the last few months who are also interested in contributing to
> the
> >> Octavia project.
> >>
> >> Who would you like to see as PTL and core developers in this project?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Stephen
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Stephen Balukoff
> >> Blue Box Group, Inc.
> >> (800)613-4305 x807
> >>
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> Technical Governance in OpenStack:
> https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Governance
>
> Guidelines for Election Officials:
> https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Election_Officiating_Guidelines
>
> I recommend asking or designating someone to act as an election official
> for the election. OpenStack elections need two officials, Stackforge
> elections often have one, though you can have two if you wish. Establish
> which processes you as a group will follow for the election. Part of the
> election official's job is to open nominations.
>
> Congratulations on the new Stackforge project, may you have a good
> election process,
> Anita.
>
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Blue Box Group, LLC
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