On 08/04/2016 9:14 AM, Thierry Carrez wrote: > Eoghan Glynn wrote: >>> However, the turnout continues to slide, dipping below 20% for >>> the first time: >> >> Election | Electorate (delta %) | Votes | Turnout (delta %) >> =========================================================== >> Oct '13 | 1106 | 342 | 30.92 >> Apr '14 | 1510 (+36.52) | 448 | 29.69 (-4.05) >> Oct '14 | 1893 (+25.35) | 506 | 26.73 (-9.91) >> Apr '15 | 2169 (+14.58) | 548 | 25.27 (-5.48) >> Oct '15 | 2759 (+27.20) | 619 | 22.44 (-11.20) >> Apr '16 | 3284 (+19.03) | 652 | 19.85 (-11.51) >> >>> >>> This ongoing trend of a decreasing proportion of the electorate >>> participating in TC elections is a concern. > > One way to look at it is that every cycle (mostly due to the habit of > giving summit passes to recent contributors) we have more and more > one-patch contributors (more than 600 in Mitaka), and those usually are > not really interested in voting... So the electorate number is a bit > inflated, resulting in an apparent drop in turnout. > > It would be interesting to run the same analysis but taking only >=3 > patch contributors as "expected voters" and see if the turnout still > drops as much. > > Long term I'd like to remove the summit pass perk (or no longer link it > to "one commit"). It will likely result in a drop in contributors > numbers (gasp), but a saner electorate. >
just for reference, while only affecting a subset of the electorate, if you look at the PTL elections, they all had over 40% turnout (even the older and larger projects). it may be because of those with "one commit", but if that were the case, you would think the turnout would be inline/similar to the PTL elections. cheers, -- gord __________________________________________________________________________ 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
