LFN Governing Board Member Committers Representative

Role:

• The role of the LFN Governing Board Member Committers Representative (LGBMCR) is to represent the committers and contributors to LFN projects at the LFN Governing board.
• LGBMCR is elected for the 1 year. Re-election is possible. There are no term limits.

Eligible candidates:

• Candidate must be an active committer to at least one LFN TAC project. A person is classified as “active committer” if the person has done at least 10 git commits during the last year to a particular TAC project.
• Candidates can self-nominate, or be nominated by other community members. In the latter case, candidates must accept the nomination before the election is conducted.
• Options for discussion by the TAC:
  1. Either: Candidate must be an active contributor to at least 2 LFN projects. 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.
     Note: The rationale for requiring the candidate to be active in at least 2 LFN projects is to ensure some level of balancing among projects - so that no single large project (with lots of eligible voters) could easily dominate the process.
  2. Or: Candidate must be an active contributor an LFN project. 

Eligible voters:

• 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? 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.

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 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.