Call for votes: Developer Membership Board restaffing

[Brian Murray]

On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 03:22:25PM +0100, Robie Basak wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 10:14:06AM -0400, Dan Streetman wrote:
> > Do you have evidence that has actually happened to anyone in this
> > case? I was able to vote quite easily, and it seems (from your ML
> > comments) that both Christian and yourself were as well, and Christian
> > provided explicit steps earlier in this email thread.
> 
> The low turnout so far suggests that there might be a problem. I've
> additionally had one piece of feedback ending in "...so I gave up. Maybe
> others did too"[1].
> 
> > Can you clarify what will happen at the announced end of the election
> > tomorrow? Will the election end, or will you extend it? What is the
> > criteria you will use to decide to extend or adjust the election?
> > What's the next steps if the election is extended?
> 
> I have yet to decide. Feedback from others appreciated.
> 
> One thing I might try to do is arrange a mailshot directly myself -
> perhaps using my @canonical.com address - since I think that might get
> through to Gmail users OK. This would be just to alert the electorate to
> the existing posts to ubuntu-devel-announce@ and ubuntu-devel at . I could
> just provide archive links. I can't differentiate between people who
> have voted and people who have not, so this would have to go to everyone
> I have down as eligible (for whom I have a valid address).

On IRC we talked about using the "Contact this user" feature of
Launchpad. Did you end up getting many more votes after doing that?

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Brian Murray