Hello Prometheus community, Under the new Prometheus governance, we are holding a bootstrap election to seat the first Steering Committee.
TLDR / Action items: - Anyone who is a maintainer of github.com/prometheus and github.com/prometheus-community is eligible to vote and stand in the elections. - Nomination period until 8 June 2026. Voting between 15 June – 29 June 2026 - Ensure your email is available in MAINTAINERS.md of the relevant repos - *Opt-in to receive a** ballot at* https://civs1.civs.us/cgi-bin/opt_in.pl All 7 seats are up for election. The 3 highest-voted candidates will serve 2-year terms; the next 4 will serve 1-year terms, establishing the staggered cycle going forward. Full details, including the company-representation cap and tie-breaking rules, are in the election document: 2026 Steering Committee Election <https://github.com/prometheus/governance/blob/main/elections/2026/steering-committee-election.md> *Schedule* *18 May 2026* — Call for nominations opens (today); voters list published *8 June 2026 23:59 UTC* — Deadline to submit nominations *12 June 2026* — Official nominees list published; deadline to request a voter eligibility review *15 June – 29 June 2026* — Voting period (closes 29 June 23:59 UTC) *Soon after* — Results announced; new Steering Committee seated; new governance comes into effect *To nominate yourself* Read the Governance document and confirm you are ready for the commitment: https://github.com/prometheus/governance/blob/main/GOVERNANCE.md If you're interested, add your nomination at `candidate-<your-githubid>.md` under `elections/2026/`, and open a PR against prometheus/governance <https://github.com/prometheus/governance> before 8 June 2026 23:59 UTC: nomination template <https://github.com/prometheus/governance/blob/main/elections/2026/nomination-template.md> *To vote* The canonical voters list is derived from accounts with write access across the prometheus and prometheus-community GitHub organizations: https://github.com/prometheus/governance/blob/main/elections/2026/voters-list/write-access.csv If you are a maintainer of a github.com/prometheus or github.com/prometheus-community repository, you are eligible to vote — but we can only reach you if your email is public. Please make sure your repository has a `MAINTAINERS.md` listing you with a contact email. If you believe you should be eligible but are not on the list, you can also submit a review request before 12 June 2026 23:59 UTC at: https://forms.gle/tasSbJ9cQdsfj5GV9 All existing prometheus-team members are automatically eligible. Voting will be conducted via CIVS (Condorcet Internet Voting Service), using ranked Condorcet with Instant Runoff Voting as the tie-breaker. Voting is private — nobody, including the Election Officers, will know any individual's vote. To receive your ballot when voting opens on 15 June 2026, please opt in via the CIVS form: https://civs1.civs.us/cgi-bin/opt_in.pl *Election Officers* Arianna Vespri (@vesari) Goutham Veeramachaneni (@gouthamve) Joe Adams (@sysadmind) Please direct questions to the Election Officers, or to the electionannouncements issue <https://github.com/prometheus/governance/issues/6> . Thanks for participating — and please take a moment to nominate yourself or someone you'd encourage to run. — The 2026 Bootstrap Election Officers -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prometheus Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/63af394c-a4cc-44a5-b978-377fce04603en%40googlegroups.com.
