Gentoo Council Elections Archives

1.  Gentoo Council Elections

Gentoo Council elections Rules

Election rules (based on GLEP 39):

• Council elections generally happen once a year
• The council is composed of seven elected members
• Nominations are allowed for 15 days.
• Only Gentoo developers may be nominated
• Anyone can nominate (nominating yourself is OK)
• Nominees must accept their nomination before voting begins
• Voting is opened for 15 days.
• Only Gentoo developers that have joined the project before nomination starts may vote
• Condorcet method of voting is used

There should be at least three officials for this election plus one Gentoo Infrastructure project member assigned to it to handle their side of the process. Officials are allowed to vote in the election but aren't allowed to run in it. Nominating and accepting nominations should happen on the gentoo-dev mailing list.

Condorcet method of voting

For both Foundation and Council elections, Condorcet method of voting is used to count votes.

To cast votes in the Council election we use the program named votify which is installed on dev.gentoo.org.

Instructions on how to use votify to cast a vote:

• If you're eligible to vote in that election, log in to dev.gentoo.org
• Type votify --new election-name to create a new ballot file
• Edit .ballot-election-name file in your home directory and rank the candidates
• Once you're finished, use votify --verify election-name command to verify the validity of your ballot file
• If everything is okay, use votify --submit election-name to submit your vote for the election. Don't forget your vote doesn't count until you submit it.
• If you run into problems, you can either work them out yourself using votify --help or contact election officials and ask them for help

Gentoo Council election pages

Council Elections:

The voting distribution is a graphical depiction of how the voters ranked each candidate, with the height of each column representing how many people ranked each candidate in a certain position. The left edge indicates high ranks, and the right edge indicates low ranks.

The voting distribution histograms were generated using a ruby script courtesy of Ciaran McCreesh.

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