From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752064AbdJYWOA (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Oct 2017 18:14:00 -0400 Received: from galahad.ideasonboard.com ([185.26.127.97]:47221 "EHLO galahad.ideasonboard.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752039AbdJYWN5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Oct 2017 18:13:57 -0400 From: Laurent Pinchart To: ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , tech-board-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org, Kernel Summit Discussions , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board election results 2017 Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2017 01:14:21 +0300 Message-ID: <2984302.a0WA3y5s5U@avalon> In-Reply-To: <9779b6c3-acd6-10aa-b9ca-c024cd77a861@zytor.com> References: <9779b6c3-acd6-10aa-b9ca-c024cd77a861@zytor.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello, On Wednesday, 25 October 2017 19:47:10 EEST H. Peter Anvin wrote: > The TAB elections are now complete. Thank you to all the candidates for > putting their names forward. > > With 73 ballots cast, the top 5 candidates received: > > Steve Rostedt 58 > Jonathan Corbet 57 > Greg Kroah-Hartman 57 > Tim Bird 39 > Ted Ts'o 37 > > It was a very close election, with the next candidate on the list > receiving 36 votes. Do we have a procedure in place in case the tie that we only avoided by one vote would have happened ? > Full results are available on request. > > This year the ballot counting was done automatically, with visual review > of the scanned ballots v. the automatic results done by myself and Chris > Mason. > > A big thank you to all the candidates, to everyone that voted, and > congratulations to the top candidates. > > -hpa > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For the curious, technical details: > > The ballots were produced and counted by SDAPS, an open-source project > (http://www.sdaps.org/). A set of custom scripts were used to simplify > the generation and counting of ballots specifically for the purpose of > these elections; those scripts are available at: > > http://git.zytor.com/users/hpa/ballot.git > > Eventually I hope to clean up these scripts, generalize them for other > voting methods, document them a little better, and formally release them > as an election package, but for now they are relatively specific to the > approval voting. > > SDAPS is a bit difficult to build, due to a very large number of > dependencies, some of which aren't well documented. It would be a very > nice thing if distros would consider packaging it, especially since it > is a very useful package. -- Regards, Laurent Pinchart