On 20/10/17 20:20, Tony Breeds wrote: > > Hi All, > With the election behind us it's somewhat traditional to look at > some simple stats from the elections: > > +----------+-----------------------+-------------------+-----------------------+ > | Election | Electorate (delta %) | Voted (delta %) | Turnout % (delta %) | > +----------+-----------------------+-------------------+-----------------------+ > | 10/2013 | 1106 ( nan) | 342 ( nan) | 30.92 ( nan) | > | 04/2014 | 1510 ( 36.53) | 448 ( 30.99) | 29.67 ( -4.05) | > | 10/2014 | 1893 ( 25.36) | 506 ( 12.95) | 26.73 ( -9.91) | > | 04/2015 | 2169 ( 14.58) | 548 ( 8.30) | 25.27 ( -5.48) | > | 10/2015 | 2759 ( 27.20) | 619 ( 12.96) | 22.44 ( -11.20) | > | 04/2016 | 3284 ( 19.03) | 652 ( 5.33) | 19.85 ( -11.51) | > | 10/2016 | 3517 ( 7.10) | 801 ( 22.85) | 22.78 ( 14.71) | > | 04/2017 | 3191 ( -9.27) | 427 ( -46.69) | 13.38 ( -41.25) | > | 10/2017 | 2430 ( -23.85) | 420 ( -1.64) | 17.28 ( 29.16) | > +----------+-----------------------+-------------------+-----------------------+ > > Election CIVS links > 10/2014: http://civs.cs.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/results.pl?id=E_c105db929e6c11f4 > 04/2015: http://civs.cs.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/results.pl?id=E_ef1379fee7b94688 > 10/2015: http://civs.cs.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/results.pl?id=E_4ef58718618691a0 > 04/2016: http://civs.cs.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/results.pl?id=E_fef5cc22eb3dc27a > 10/2016: http://civs.cs.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/results.pl?id=E_356e6c1b16904010 > 04/2017: http://civs.cs.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/results.pl?id=E_072c4cd7ff0673b5 > 10/2017: http://civs.cs.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/results.pl?id=E_ce86063991ef8aae > > I don't have a feel for with the Pike electorate decreased but my gut > feel is that it was organic drop-off possibly in part to the shorter > Ocata development cycle. The Queens drop-off was due to a new[1] > membership API being available that meant we could validate Foundation > membership instead of using gerrit permission as a proxy. Can we maybe calculate the electorate size using the old method as well so that we can quantify how much of the dropoff (in theory it could be more than 100%) was due to the change in effective eligibility criteria vs. organic change in the number of contributors? - ZB > I'd like to call out that with Pike we had a very dramatic decrease in > voter turnout both in absolute and relative terms. As a community it's > worth trying to understand whether this is a problem and/or a trend that > needs to change. > > Yours Tony. > > [1] It wasn't that new it was also used during the PTL election[2] > [2] See: > http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2017-July/119786.html ; and > http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2017-August/120544.html > > > > __________________________________________________________________________ > OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Unsubscribe: OpenStack-dev-request at lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >