[Qgis-psc] Vote eligibility for QGIS Community Voters

[Tim Sutton]

Hi Nyall and Junior



> On 11 May 2016, at 08:33, Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 11 May 2016 at 16:27, DelazJ <delazj at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi
>> 
>> Agreed with Giovanni. And at the other side, there are people that have
>> commit rights to repos that haven't contributed in the last years.


Giovanni and Junior I would like to suggest we just go with the inclusive route, we need to bootstrap the voting body. I will send out a broader email to this effect to the mailing lists along with a deadline for voting extension to be sure that everyone has enough time to vote.

>> 
>> @PSC, I'm not sure this campaign has got the expected result, given the
>> remaining remarks/questions (there's a not answered afaik question of Nyall
>> about how many persons can a person nominate).
> 
> I'm also wondering - do we need to nominate people who are already on
> the PSC? Or is that redundant?

I think it is redundant - the voting member’s role is to approve / disapprove decisions of the PSC / Board. If members of the PSC are not re-elected to serve on the board they will be without franchise but as new country groups form, there will be new opportunities to be nominated to the role of voting members.

With reference to the specific number of nominations that should be made, each community member should make one nomination only.


> 
> Nyall
> 
> 
>> 
>> What about opening a wider discussion with the community to draft
>> who/how/when, based on your first work ? Not only the process will be
>> shared, built together but people will already be aware of this upcoming
>> vote, will think about their potential nominee(s?), user group can have time
>> to decide who they'll send (I suppose the place is not automatically for
>> their chair and 7 days can be short for that).


Good sentiments Harissou but I fear we will take years to ever form the board and QGIS.org. Can I suggest that we keep moving forward, use the registered user group names (user groups can replace their voting member at any time with an alternate so this can be worked out internally by user groups). I think it is not so hard to nominate a community member in 7 days - generally you have a pretty good idea of who a shining star is in the community, if you don’t you are probably too far removed from the community to make a meaningful vote.

As mentioned I am going to write to the lists extending the deadline to Friday and provide some clarifications to the above. PSC I hope this is ok for you - time is short and I would like to keep things moving along.

Regards

Tim


>> 
>> Regards,
>> Harrissou
>> 
>> 2016-05-09 10:47 GMT+02:00 Giovanni Manghi <giovanni.manghi at gmail.com>:
>>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 1:29 PM, Tim Sutton <tim at qgis.org> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi All
>>>> 
>>>> I had a request from Saber to include the people registered on the hub
>>>> into the list of people that are eligible to nominated QGIS Community Voting
>>>> Members - are there any objections to that?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> sorry for jumping in late in this discussion, I wasn't able to do it
>>> before.
>>> 
>>> I think that this proposal would be fair for the people that are most
>>> committed in the bug tracker. For example: I have -of course- no
>>> commit rights to the code (but have also some ~150 pull requests that
>>> are processing related) and I don't usually translate (I'm not mother
>>> tongue in the country where I live and work) but I consistently spend
>>> a lot of time if filing tickets/reports, and most of them are the
>>> result of testing (usually on multiple platforms, with multiple
>>> versions installed) of new features/fixes rather than the result if
>>> stumbling into in an issue. And like me of course there are others.
>>> Can't speak for the others, but I definitely feel I'm part of the team
>>> :)
>>> 
>>> cheers!
>>> 
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Tim Sutton
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