On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 1:28 PM, Maish Saidel-Keesing <mais...@maishsk.com> wrote:
> > On 04/30/15 21:48, Joe Gordon wrote: > >> As others have done for past elections, here is a brief breakdown of the >> TC election ballot data. >> >> analysis: http://paste.openstack.org/show/213831 >> source code: http://paste.openstack.org/show/213830 >> >> Some highlights are: >> >> * 3 people voted but ranked everyone as #19 >> * 16% of the ballots voted for 3 or fewer candidates >> * Theirry and Jay did much better then everyone else. >> * Most winning candidates were ranked #19 over 1/3 of the time. >> * No one voted for only James while 6 people only voted for Flavio (min >> and max) >> >> >> Thanks Joe for the analysis. It is quite interesting. Another thing that > I find interesting is the low participation rate. > > Out of 2169 eligible voters, 548 participated - that is 25.26%. > According to [0] there were 369 ”Regular” contributors in 2014, and in Kilo there were only 748 contributors with 5 or more patches out of the 1886 contributors [1]. So measuring participation from eligible votes is a misleading. Well over half of the eligible voters have only contributed a few patches, and we had more voters participate then we have 'regular' contributors. So I think our turnout is actually really good. [0] https://www.openstack.org/assets/reports/osf-annual-report-2014.pdf [1] http://stackalytics.com/?release=kilo&metric=commits > > Comparing to previous elections > Oct. 2014 - 1893 eligible voters, 506 participated - 26.73% > Apr. 2014 - 1510 eligible voters, 408 participated - 29.66% > > I am wondering why the participation level is so low. This is really one > of the few opportunities a contributor has to define the direction of > OpenStack as a whole. And yet it goes down each election. > > I can think of perhaps two reasons for low participation. > > 1. People do not see find that they need interaction with the TC, they are > focused on the work going on in their project and at most - have > interaction they need with the PTL, they do not really care that much about > - or have any dealings with the TC and it members - so they do not find it > important enough to participate. > > 2. Could it be that OpenStack has contributors that are producing code - > mainly because that is what their job is - they are hired by a vendor, a > company that has made it a priority to get code into the products - and > therefore they produce code, and evidently it is a sizable number of people > like this - but do not really participate in the community? > > Thoughts? > > -- > Best Regards, > Maish Saidel-Keesing > > __________________________________________________________________________ > OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >
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