Every year the Community is required to vote the technical leadership for ONAP projects. It is the time to take a pragmatic look at how we are functioning as a community and ensure that we are set to scale for the challenges ahead.
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There is no "automatic rollover" for any of these positions, with the exception of those individuals who are Committers. All of others are subject to the annual election process.
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Section 4.1.1 of the ONAP Technical Community Document defines an Active Community Member as "Anyone from the ONAP community with twenty (20) or more measurable contributions during the previous 12-month period, inclusive of code merged, code reviews performed, wiki page edits, (creation, modification, comments or attachments) or JIRA activities (creation, modification, comment or closure)."
Process:
When appropriate a call for nominations will be sent by the LF to onap-tsc mailing list. Individuals interested in running for the a TSC position MUST REPLY-ALL TO THE ORIGINAL EMAIL Replying to another candidate's self-nomination email announcing your self-nomination is considered a hostile act at best. It is recommended that candidates include a biography and statement of intent on why you would be a good person to hold this position. It is requested that candidates fill in a candidate wiki page with that same information. Note that filling out the wiki page is NOT in lieu of sending the email as required.
- The nomination phase begins with the receipt of the announcement ( as verified by checking the appropriate list in groups.io )
- The nomination phase ends two three (23) weeks s after the announcement in announcement in the same time zone the poll was initiated from
Election Phase
A Condorcet election will be held using an anonymous on-line voting method Active Community Members will Members will receive an invitation to vote from CIVSopavote.com.
- The election phase will begin with the distribution of the ballot information via email from the application
- The election phase will end two (2) weeks later in the same time zone the poll was initiated from
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- The election of a TSC Member shall consist of a single stack ranked vote of all candidates
- Only the top ranked candidates from any single company will be elected; if the top 10 vote getters are all from the same company, only the person with the highest number of votes out of all 10 from that company will be elected.
- The top ranked candidate from each Operator will be selected, for a total of nine members, one member from each Operator
- The top ranked non-Operator candidates (whether affiliated with a company or an individual contributor), will be selected for the remaining nine seats, with no more than one member per company or group of related companies being selected.
- The LF will update the Voting Results History page page with their name, date, and link to the a publicly viewable CIVS pdf of the results, and send an email to the distribution list and to onap-tsc list.
- The election of a TSC Member shall consist of a single stack ranked vote of all candidates
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PTL Elections
Who is eligible to Run: Existing Committers for that project
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If you have fundamental concerns about the process, any member of the community can always reach out to your LFN Program Manager by sending an email to pmo @ onap.org (minus the blank spaces)
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Community Coordinator Elections
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