On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 06:14:27AM -0400, Dan Streetman wrote: > Where are the rules/policies written down about how elections should > be handled?
The first time I ran an election I couldn't find much documentation at all, so I tried to follow what I could see of what had been done before, fixed up the voter email gathering code, and documented everything at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DeveloperMembershipBoard/KnowledgeBase#Running_a_DMB_election Note though that I documented what I considered to be best practice, based on what had been done before as well as feedback. It's not a rule or policy as such. Nor do I think it's necessary to be that. This time I'm mostly following that documentation, adapting as I think appropriate for the current situation (eg. three seats vacated, not because their terms expired, etc, required changes in wording). > We should have the process written down somewhere so there > is not ambiguity like this. In this case I don't think it would necessarily be appropriate to blindly follow a written rule or policy. The goal is to ensure that everyone considers the outcome to be fair and appropriate. It's not possible to have a written policy to cover every possible exceptional case. This situation is exceptional, and may warrant taking some exceptional action to ensure that we don't inappropriately exclude anyone. Ideally, if we did decide to handle something differently as an exception, we would all be unanimous about the appropriateness of doing that. This is why I'm asking for feedback here. On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 06:17:23AM -0400, Dan Streetman wrote: > On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 6:14 AM Dan Streetman <ddstr...@ieee.org> wrote: > Also, I think we should probably remove ubuntu-devel-announce from > this discussion? Agreed. I mistakenly included it in my previous reply and cancelled the post there after it was held for moderation. I've now cut down the Cc: list. I think it's fine to limit the discussion to ubuntu-devel@ as all nominees and the electorate are expected to be in here. Nonwithstanding deliverability problems, but I don't expect that to affect any other Ubuntu lists differently. Robie
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