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Jeremy Stanley <fungi at yuggoth.org> wrote on 03/12/2019 04:07:15 PM:
> 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.

yeah, I should have probably looked for that and setup a calendar reminder.

A couple things we could potentially do in future (via script?):
 * ping the appropriate IRC channel
 * email the current PTLs directly

> > 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.

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.

[1] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/643003/
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