[GRASS-PSC] PSC elections

[Chief Return Officer (CRO) - GRASS GIS election 2020]

On 2020-12-14 12:45, Moritz Lennert wrote:
> On 14/12/20 12:43, Moritz Lennert wrote:
>> 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 This is perhaps outdated?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Yes, that's definitely outdated.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.
>>
>
> Maybe we can start with an email to all mailing lists, informing 
> everyone that we consider these three files as our "electoral 
> registry" and that if anyone feels she or he should be in one of these 
> files, that they send a mail to the respective list informing us ?
>
I can do this at once if no one opposes.

/H.

PS. this email should have been sent one hour ago, but I was affected by 
the google global crash of today. No it seems to work fine.