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SubjectRE: [Ksummit-discuss] Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board Elections -- voting procedures
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Laura Abbott
>
> On behalf of the Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board (TAB), I'd
> like to announce the voting procedures for the 2020 TAB elections.
> The pool of eligible voters will consist of the following:
>
> 1) All attendees of the Linux Plumbers conference (i.e. kernel summit)
>
> 2) Anyone who is not a kernel summit attendee will also be eligible to
> vote if the following criteria are met:
> -- There exists three kernel commits in a mainline or stable released
> kernel that
> --- Have a commit date in the year 2019 or 2020
> --- Contain an e-mail address in one of the following tags or merged
> tags (e.g. Reviewed-and-tested-by)
> ---- Signed-off-by
> ---- Tested-by
> ---- Reported-by
> ---- Reviewed-by
> ---- Acked-by
>
> We will be using the electronic voting method that we used in 2019. All
> Linux Plumbers Attendees will automatically receive a ballot. Anyone
> who is otherwise eligible to vote should e-mail
> tab-elections@lists.linuxfoundation.org to request a ballot. The deadline
> for requesting a ballot is August 17, 00:00 UTC (one week before
> Linux Plumbers)
>
> For those who would like to know the thought process behind this:
>
> Last year, we successfully used electronic voting for the TAB
> elections. Given the circumstances of this year, we have no other
> reasonable option for voting. While we could continue to limit voting to
> kernel summit attendees, one of the goals of moving away from in person
> voting was to potentially expand the voter pool. Since kernel summit is
> not being held in person this year, it makes sense to expand the voting
> pool at the same time.
>
> We will be sending a call for nominations and announcements about
> when voting will start at a later date.
>
> If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to the tab at
> tab@lists.linuxfoundation.org

I know it's a lot of work to put this together. Thanks very much for this
new process. I think it's a great change.

Regards,
-- Tim

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