[Ksummit-discuss] Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board election results 2017

[Ksummit-discuss] Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board election results 2017

[H. Peter Anvin]

The TAB elections are now complete. Thank you to all the candidates for
putting their names forward.

With 73 ballots cast, the top 5 candidates received:

Steve Rostedt		58
Jonathan Corbet		57
Greg Kroah-Hartman	57
Tim Bird		39
Ted Ts'o		37

It was a very close election, with the next candidate on the list
receiving 36 votes.  Full results are available on request.

This year the ballot counting was done automatically, with visual review
of the scanned ballots v. the automatic results done by myself and Chris
Mason.

A big thank you to all the candidates, to everyone that voted, and
congratulations to the top candidates.

	-hpa

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For the curious, technical details:

The ballots were produced and counted by SDAPS, an open-source project
(http://www.sdaps.org/).  A set of custom scripts were used to simplify
the generation and counting of ballots specifically for the purpose of
these elections; those scripts are available at:

	http://git.zytor.com/users/hpa/ballot.git

Eventually I hope to clean up these scripts, generalize them for other
voting methods, document them a little better, and formally release them
as an election package, but for now they are relatively specific to the
approval voting.

SDAPS is a bit difficult to build, due to a very large number of
dependencies, some of which aren't well documented.  It would be a very
nice thing if distros would consider packaging it, especially since it
is a very useful package.

Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board election results 2017

[Laurent Pinchart]

Hello,

On Wednesday, 25 October 2017 19:47:10 EEST H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> The TAB elections are now complete. Thank you to all the candidates for
> putting their names forward.
> 
> With 73 ballots cast, the top 5 candidates received:
> 
> Steve Rostedt		58
> Jonathan Corbet		57
> Greg Kroah-Hartman	57
> Tim Bird		39
> Ted Ts'o		37
> 
> It was a very close election, with the next candidate on the list
> receiving 36 votes.

Do we have a procedure in place in case the tie that we only avoided by one 
vote would have happened ?

> Full results are available on request.
> 
> This year the ballot counting was done automatically, with visual review
> of the scanned ballots v. the automatic results done by myself and Chris
> Mason.
> 
> A big thank you to all the candidates, to everyone that voted, and
> congratulations to the top candidates.
> 
> 	-hpa
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> For the curious, technical details:
> 
> The ballots were produced and counted by SDAPS, an open-source project
> (http://www.sdaps.org/).  A set of custom scripts were used to simplify
> the generation and counting of ballots specifically for the purpose of
> these elections; those scripts are available at:
> 
> 	http://git.zytor.com/users/hpa/ballot.git
> 
> Eventually I hope to clean up these scripts, generalize them for other
> voting methods, document them a little better, and formally release them
> as an election package, but for now they are relatively specific to the
> approval voting.
> 
> SDAPS is a bit difficult to build, due to a very large number of
> dependencies, some of which aren't well documented.  It would be a very
> nice thing if distros would consider packaging it, especially since it
> is a very useful package.

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart

Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board election results 2017

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 10/26/17 00:14, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
>
>> It was a very close election, with the next candidate on the list
>> receiving 36 votes.
> 
> Do we have a procedure in place in case the tie that we only avoided by one 
> vote would have happened ?
> 

In that case thw winner(s) would be drawn randomly.  The scanning tool
scripts actually assigns each candidate a tiebreaker number via
/dev/urandom, but we have not yet decided if we would do that or, for
example, a physical coin toss.

We have had ties in the past, and had one this time too, but none that
has ever crossed the cut line.

	-hpa

Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [Tech-board-discuss] Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board election results 2017

[Dave Taht]

On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 5:23 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
> On 10/26/17 00:14, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
>>
>>> It was a very close election, with the next candidate on the list
>>> receiving 36 votes.
>>
>> Do we have a procedure in place in case the tie that we only avoided by one
>> vote would have happened ?
>>
>
> In that case thw winner(s) would be drawn randomly.  The scanning tool
> scripts actually assigns each candidate a tiebreaker number via
> /dev/urandom, but we have not yet decided if we would do that or, for
> example, a physical coin toss.

Once upon a time, Heinlein, it was, I think, suggested that a
candidate for office be
picked entirely randomly from the pool. The lottery concept - the idea
that if you ran,
you had a small chance of serving no matter the popular vote - encouraged
participation.

>
> We have had ties in the past, and had one this time too, but none that
> has ever crossed the cut line.
>
>         -hpa
>
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Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board election results 2017

[Matthew Wilcox]

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Can we have the list of write-in candidates? How many votes for Batman this
year?

On Oct 25, 2017 18:47, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:

> The TAB elections are now complete. Thank you to all the candidates for
> putting their names forward.
>
> With 73 ballots cast, the top 5 candidates received:
>
> Steve Rostedt           58
> Jonathan Corbet         57
> Greg Kroah-Hartman      57
> Tim Bird                39
> Ted Ts'o                37
>
> It was a very close election, with the next candidate on the list
> receiving 36 votes.  Full results are available on request.
>
> This year the ballot counting was done automatically, with visual review
> of the scanned ballots v. the automatic results done by myself and Chris
> Mason.
>
> A big thank you to all the candidates, to everyone that voted, and
> congratulations to the top candidates.
>
>         -hpa
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> For the curious, technical details:
>
> The ballots were produced and counted by SDAPS, an open-source project
> (http://www.sdaps.org/).  A set of custom scripts were used to simplify
> the generation and counting of ballots specifically for the purpose of
> these elections; those scripts are available at:
>
>         http://git.zytor.com/users/hpa/ballot.git
>
> Eventually I hope to clean up these scripts, generalize them for other
> voting methods, document them a little better, and formally release them
> as an election package, but for now they are relatively specific to the
> approval voting.
>
> SDAPS is a bit difficult to build, due to a very large number of
> dependencies, some of which aren't well documented.  It would be a very
> nice thing if distros would consider packaging it, especially since it
> is a very useful package.
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>

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Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [Tech-board-discuss] Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board election results 2017

[Steven Rostedt]

On Thu, 26 Oct 2017 03:25:07 -0400
Matthew Wilcox <willy6545@gmail.com> wrote:

> Can we have the list of write-in candidates? How many votes for Batman this
> year?

Batman only got 1 vote. But Joker got one vote too.

-- Steve