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. 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.