Edward Leafe wrote: > [...] > The current candidacy essay would now be posted in the campaign period, > rather than at the time of nomination, and should exclude the sort of > biographical information that is currently the most important piece for many > people. [...]
As other mentioned, this is unlikely to give good results -- the track record of the person is much more important than what they pretend to care about in campaign emails (or their mastery of written English). In campaign emails, people always promise they have a lot of time on their hands, or they will change everything (or "be proactive"). But when the rubber hits the road, some vote one hour before the meeting, and some others don't show up at all. Campaign emails only bind those who believe in them. In my voting I prefer to consider the past availability and interest in those issues, the positions held on various threads and reviews, and the cooperative behavior (or absence thereof) exhibited in those discussions. Now, it's true that a lot of people vote on names, and don't take the time to dig into meeting logs and governance reviews. I'm not sure it's easy to fix though... you can't force people to spend time researching candidates. We could reduce the electorate to people more likely to have time to do that research (raise the bar in number of patches you have to contribute before you can vote) -- but that would require significant changes in the Foundation bylaws (where the "1 contributor = 1 vote" principle in carved in protected sections). Another path would be to facilitate that research. We could publish meeting presence metrics, but that would only encourage people to make random noise at meetings. We could ask incumbents to post a "here is what I did over the last year at the TC" as part of their platform email. Other ideas ? -- Thierry Carrez (ttx) __________________________________________________________________________ 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
