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> On Sep 14, 2016, at 12:23 PM, Thierry Carrez <thierry at openstack.org> wrote:
> 
> Doug Hellmann wrote:
>>> On Sep 14, 2016, at 10:01 AM, Thierry Carrez <thierry at openstack.org> wrote:
>>> Doug Hellmann wrote:
>>>>> On Sep 14, 2016, at 8:06 AM, Tristan Cacqueray <tdecacqu at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>> it has come to my attention that election officials need to be appointed
>>>>> by the TC. So here is the request to approve the current list:
>>>>> 
>>>>>  Tony Breeds (tonyb), tony at bakeyournoodle dot com
>>>>>  Tristan Cacqueray (tristanC), tdecacqu at redhat dot com
>>>>>  Nate Johnston (njohnston), openstacknate at gmail dot com
>>>>> 
>>>>> We added a third officials to be able to verify Tony's candidacies.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> -Tristan
>>>> 
>>>> How have we handled this in the past? A roll-call vote in meeting? An email vote? A resolution?
>>> 
>>> In the past we just did not object when volunteers were suggested. I
>>> think if no TC member formally objects in the coming days we should
>>> consider those officials good to go.
>> 
>> OK, maybe we should just handle this the same way we do for other teams and have a thread on the -dev list suggesting new members to the team and giving folks a chance to +1/-1 there.
> 
> One trick here is that the election is already under way, so we are a
> bit short in time. Also this is in theory a delegation of power by the
> TC, so not sure we need a full thread to bless them.

Sure, I meant for the future. It seems like a good idea to have the election official discussion in the same forum as the self-nominations. We would only need to discuss changes to the list, hence the analogy to the way we handle other teams.

If it wasn’t clear from my earlier message, I am happy to support the current 3 volunteers as officials for this election cycle.

Doug