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.

There are several different areas where voting is relevant. All of these can be found in the ONAP Technical Community Document

• The TSC election process is governed by section 4.2.3 TSC Member Elections
• Technical Community Coordinators and ONAP Liaisons governed by section  4.2.2.4  TSC Chair/Vice Chair/Coordinator Election Mechanics
• Project Technical Leads (PTLs) governed by section 3.1.3.3 Project Technical Leader Election Mechanics
• Subcommittee Chairs governed by section  4.4.1.3  Subcommittee Chair / Vice Chair Elections
• Project Committers (those permitted to merge code into the main branch) governed by section  3.2.2.1  Adding Committers

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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• • 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 No more than one member per company or group of related companies being selected.
    
  • The LF will update the Voting Results History page with their name, date, and link to a publicly viewable pdf of the results, and send an email to the onap-tsc list.

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• • • A majority vote of all Committers is required to win the PTL election.
    • The winning PTL updates the Voting Results History page with their name, date, and link to the publicly viewable CIVS results and sends email to onap-tsc with the results

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Who is eligible to Vote: Subcommittee members of record (as per the wiki page) effective the date the nomination process starts AND as controlled within the context of Section 4.4.1.4 of the Community Document

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• • • The individual receiving the highest number of votes from all votes cast shall be declared the winner UNLESS other provisions have already been agreed to within a particular subcommittee such as the top two vote getters are elected as  joint-Chairs or the top vote getter is elected as Chair and the runner-up is elected Vice-Chair. 
    • The newly (re)-elected Chair will update the Voting Results History page with their name, date, and link to the publicly viewable CIVS results and send an email to their distribution list with a cc to onap-tsc

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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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Election Results The LF will update the Voting Results History page with their name, date, and link either to the publicly viewable CIVS results or vote email thread and send an email to the distribution list and to onap-tsc

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