Hello, On Wednesday, 25 October 2017 19:47:10 EEST H. Peter Anvin wrote: > The TAB elections are now complete. Thank you to all the candidates for > putting their names forward. > > With 73 ballots cast, the top 5 candidates received: > > Steve Rostedt 58 > Jonathan Corbet 57 > Greg Kroah-Hartman 57 > Tim Bird 39 > Ted Ts'o 37 > > It was a very close election, with the next candidate on the list > receiving 36 votes.
Do we have a procedure in place in case the tie that we only avoided by one vote would have happened ? > Full results are available on request. > > This year the ballot counting was done automatically, with visual review > of the scanned ballots v. the automatic results done by myself and Chris > Mason. > > A big thank you to all the candidates, to everyone that voted, and > congratulations to the top candidates. > > -hpa > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For the curious, technical details: > > The ballots were produced and counted by SDAPS, an open-source project > (http://www.sdaps.org/). A set of custom scripts were used to simplify > the generation and counting of ballots specifically for the purpose of > these elections; those scripts are available at: > > http://git.zytor.com/users/hpa/ballot.git > > Eventually I hope to clean up these scripts, generalize them for other > voting methods, document them a little better, and formally release them > as an election package, but for now they are relatively specific to the > approval voting. > > SDAPS is a bit difficult to build, due to a very large number of > dependencies, some of which aren't well documented. It would be a very > nice thing if distros would consider packaging it, especially since it > is a very useful package. -- Regards, Laurent Pinchart
