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From: Andy Isaacson <adi@hexapodia.org>
Subject: Re: [Tech-board-discuss] Re: [Ksummit-2007-discuss] Re: Linux
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To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>, Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>, Tech Board Discuss <Tech-board-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, ksummit-2007-discuss@thunk.org

On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 08:35:07PM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> > While I think that's laudable, we definitely don't have the resources
> > for that, as everyone on the TAB already has a full workload. And it
> > hardly seems worth the trouble for a once-a-year election.
> 
> Exactly ... we want a process that's simple and transparent.  We chose
> voting at the KS because almost all the attendees satisfy the "made
> significant contributions to Linux" requirement without us having to do
> anything or make any controversial determinations.  Like Matt said,
> better suggestions are welcome.

This is a dumb suggestion, but...

How about one vote per git commit merged to linus' tree?

Might be worthwhile to allocate votes for Acked-By and so on, as well.

-andy