Hello Everyone, Over the last few elections, with changes to the election cycle (i.e. the separation of PTL and TC elections not being back to back), the scripts in place have become somewhat outdated and brittle.
A few days ago after fixing a number of candidates names in an exceptions file[1] due to incorrect information given to the docs build by a gerrit lookup function, we had a conversation about how to fix this and other issues. The lengthy discussion expanded from how to improve the processes for both generation of the governance docs with correct candidate names to the validation of candidates when nominations are posted to Gerrit. Basically, we are proposing several changes to the scripts that exist and changes to how nominations are submitted. 1. Uncouple the TC and PTL election processes. Make changes to our tooling to validate PTL candidates and make those separate from the changes to validate TC candidates. 2. Change the how-to-submit-candidacy directions to require the candidate's email address (matching in Gerrit and foundation member profile) as the file name of their nomination. All other info (name, IRC nick, etc.) should be set in the foundation member profile. This could also mean a reformatting the nomination submission altoghether to be YAML or JSON (open for debate). 3. Create separate jobs for both docs build and candidate validation (and run separate validation functions for TC elections versus PTL elections). Please feel free to raise comments, concerns, or better ideas! The plan is to schedule time at the PTG to start hacking on some of these items so feedback before then would be fantastic! - Your Friendly Neighborhood Election Officials 1: http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/election/tree/exceptions.txt
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