Call for votes: Developer Membership Board restaffing

[Robie Basak]

On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 06:14:27AM -0400, Dan Streetman wrote:
> Where are the rules/policies written down about how elections should
> be handled?

The first time I ran an election I couldn't find much documentation at
all, so I tried to follow what I could see of what had been done before,
fixed up the voter email gathering code, and documented everything at:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DeveloperMembershipBoard/KnowledgeBase#Running_a_DMB_election

Note though that I documented what I considered to be best practice,
based on what had been done before as well as feedback. It's not a rule
or policy as such. Nor do I think it's necessary to be that.

This time I'm mostly following that documentation, adapting as I think
appropriate for the current situation (eg. three seats vacated, not
because their terms expired, etc, required changes in wording).

>             We should have the process written down somewhere so there
> is not ambiguity like this.

In this case I don't think it would necessarily be appropriate to
blindly follow a written rule or policy.

The goal is to ensure that everyone considers the outcome to be fair and
appropriate. It's not possible to have a written policy to cover every
possible exceptional case. This situation is exceptional, and may
warrant taking some exceptional action to ensure that we don't
inappropriately exclude anyone. Ideally, if we did decide to handle
something differently as an exception, we would all be unanimous about
the appropriateness of doing that. This is why I'm asking for feedback
here.

On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 06:17:23AM -0400, Dan Streetman wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 6:14 AM Dan Streetman <ddstreet at ieee.org> wrote:
> Also, I think we should probably remove ubuntu-devel-announce from
> this discussion?

Agreed. I mistakenly included it in my previous reply and cancelled the
post there after it was held for moderation. I've now cut down the Cc:
list. I think it's fine to limit the discussion to ubuntu-devel@ as all
nominees and the electorate are expected to be in here. Nonwithstanding
deliverability problems, but I don't expect that to affect any other
Ubuntu lists differently.

Robie
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