[GRASS-PSC] PSC elections

[Moritz Lennert]

On 14/12/20 09:44, Chief Return Officer (CRO) - GRASS GIS election 2020 
wrote:
> 
> On 2020-12-13 23:12, Veronica Andreo wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> El dom, 13 dic 2020 a las 21:19, Moritz Lennert 
>> (<mlennert at club.worldonline.be <mailto:mlennert at club.worldonline.be>>) 
>> escribió:
>>
>>
>>     Am 13. Dezember 2020 20:36:05 MEZ schrieb Markus Neteler
>>     <neteler at osgeo.org <mailto:neteler at osgeo.org>>:
>>     >On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 7:38 PM Hernán De Angelis
>>     ><variablestarlight at gmail.com
>>     <mailto:variablestarlight at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>     >>
>>     >> Hi again,
>>     >>
>>     >> In the wiki, eligible voters are defined as those with svn
>>     access. This is perhaps outdated?
>>     >
>>     >Yes, that's definitely outdated.
>>     >
>>     >> In 2020 it should perhaps be those who can merge a pull request
>>     in GitHub? Or should we choose another definition?
>>
>>     Only merge rights (i.e. write access to the grass repository)
>>     seems very restrictive in current github PR times.
>>
>>
>> Fully agreed! Last time, all of us in the contributors and 
>> contributors_extra files were given voting rights. We could also 
>> consider those in translators.csv. I don't remember if they were 
>> considered last time. I believe they were not.
>>
>>     >I believe that we should also recognize other contributions
>>     >(documentation, translation etc).
>>
>>     How to define this, though. In my eyes we should be as inclusive
>>     as reasonable.
>>
>>     Maybe we could say:
>>
>>     - All people with write access to any of the GRASS GIS
>>     repositories (i.e for example also including add-ons and website).
>>     - All people that have already posted a pull request to github
>>     (possibly only those PR that have been merged)
>>     - All people that have contributed to Transifex.
>>
>>
>> +1!
>>
> +1 to this too
> 
> A couple of related questions:
> 
> 1. is there any easily accessible/searchable list over people who have 
> the right to vote? How it is supposed the CRO will check this?

The three files that Vero mentioned are all in the root of the github 
repository:

https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/blob/master/contributors.csv
https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/blob/master/contributors_extra.csv
https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/blob/master/translators.csv

I don't know if there are many contributors of pull requests via github 
that are not in those files, same for translators that might be active 
on Transifex, but not in the relevant list.

@MarkusN what is the status of these lists ?

For github PR contributors, maybe the tool MarkusN mentioned could help 
getting a list from github.

> 
> 2. Now that we are talking about lists of names, at least in EU we have 
> to follow GDPR. We should add somewhere a note stating that names are 
> going to be stored and shown, and also describing how. Perhaps this is 
> already considered?

We do not add anything to the three lists above, and they are already 
public, so I don't think we have to worry about that too much.

Indepently of the election, in the context of GDPR we maybe have to send 
a mail to all mailing lists reminding people that these lists exist and 
that they can inform us if they want to be taken off. I'm really no GPDR 
expert, though.

Moritz