election/doc/source/index.rst

OpenStack Election

See Election system, PTL details and TC details.

Below is the official list of candidates for the current round.

Previous elections

Election Officials

• Tony Breeds (tonyb), tony at bakeyournoodle dot com
• Tristan Cacqueray (tristanC), tdecacqu at redhat dot com
• Nate Johnston (njohnston), openstacknate at gmail dot com

For any questions, please contact officials by mail or over irc at #openstack-election Freenode channel.

Election System

Elections will be held using CIVS and a Condorcet algorithm (Schulze/Beatpath/CSSD variant). Any tie will be broken using Governance_TieBreaking.

Electorate

The electorate for this election are the Foundation individual members that are also committers for one of the official project teams repositories over the Mitaka-Newton timeframe (September 5, 2015 00:00 UTC to September 4, 2016 23:59 UTC).

The electorate is requested to confirm their email address in gerrit, review.openstack.org > Settings > Contact Information > Preferred Email, prior to September 18, 2016 so that the emailed ballots are mailed to the correct email address.

The electorate is expected to abide by the following general resolution: https://governance.openstack.org/resolutions/20140711-election-activities.html.

Candidates

Any member of an election electorate can propose their candidacy for the same election. Nominees propose their candidacy by submitting a text file to the openstack/election repository. See documentation below.

How to submit your candidacy

If you are not already familiar with OpenStack development workflow, see this more detailed documentation: http://docs.openstack.org/infra/manual/developers.html

Candidacies now need to be submitted as a text file to the openstack/election repository. Here are the required steps:

• Clone the election repository: git clone git://git.openstack.org/openstack/election ; cd election
• Create a new file candidates/newton/<project_name>/<irc_name>.txt containing your candidate statement.
• Commit your candidacy: git add candidates/newton//.txt; git commit -m "Adding <your_name> candidacy for <project_name>"
• Submit your candidacy: git review

For example if John Doe (jdoe on IRC) wants to become the Newton Nova PTL, he needs to write his candidacy to "candidates/newton/Nova/jdoe.txt"

After it's submitted to gerrit, verification and approval is being done by elections officials. Then the approved candidate list above is updated.

Project Team Leads' election

Elected Positions

Every official project teams must elect a PTL. PTLs are elected for 6 months. Reference: http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/governance/tree/reference/projects.yaml?id=sept-2016-elections.

Electorate

Except otherwise-noted in the project team description, the electorate for a given PTL election are the Foundation individual members that are also committers for one of the team's repositories over the Mitaka-Newton timeframe (September 5, 2015 00:00 UTC to September 4, 2016 23:59 UTC).

Technical Committee's election

Elected Positions

Under the rules of the TC charter, we need to renew 6 TC seats for this election. Seats are valid for one-year terms.

• Technical Committee member - 6 positions.

Electorate

The electorate for this election are the Foundation individual members that are also committers for one of the official project teams repositories over the Mitaka-Newton timeframe (September 5, 2015 00:00 UTC to September 4, 2016 23:59 UTC).

Candidates

Any individual member of the foundation can propose their candidacy (except the last TC members who were elected at the previous election).

Nominees proposes their candidacy by submitting a text file to the openstack/election repository. The file must be placed in candidates/<cycle>/TC/<candidate_irc_name>.txt. The candidacy is then confirmed by elections officials through gerrit vote. See above How to submit a candidacy documentation.

See the Election Officiating Guidelines page in the wiki for details on the election process.