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- Any person who is an “active contributor” to any LFN project (i.e. LFN TAC-projects as well as any other LFN projects) is eligible to vote for the election. A person is considered an “active contributor” to a LFN project, if the person is eligible to vote as part of the TSC election process in that project. (
Question: How do we deal with projects that don’t have a TSC?
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Possible answer: generalize the statement above to the following: considered to be "active" contributor, if the person is a committer on the project or is eligible to vote for "any" election in that project. Examples of elections in the project: TSC, PTL, etc.
Note: The rationale for determining "active contributors" based on the rules of the individual projects is to simplify the process: The LFN PM running the election can leverage existing data as opposed to being required to create a new database of eligible voters. The downside of this approach is that different projects might have different rules, thus the criteria might not be entirely homogeneous.
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Election process:
- The LFN Program Manager responsible for the TAC (LFN PM) – or a representative appointed by the TAC to conduct the LGBMCR election - kicks of off the election process, announcing the start of a nomination period via email to all technical-discuss and TSC mailing lists of all LFN project.
- Nomination period (see above) is 2 weeks.
- Once the nomination period is closed, the LFN PM (or the appointed representative), starts the election
- Election uses the Condorcet method. The election period is 2 weeks.
- Once the election period is closed, the LFN PM (or the appointed representative) announces the results via email to the above mentioned mailing lists.