On 26/10/17 11:27 +0200, Thierry Carrez wrote:
Tony Breeds wrote:On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 10:06:46PM -0400, David Moreau Simard wrote:Was it just me or did the "official" period for campaigning/questions was awfully short ?The schedule [1] went: TC Campaigning: (Start) Oct 11, 2017 23:59 UTC (End) Oct 14, 2017 23:45 UTCThe original was: - name: 'TC Campaigning' start: '2017-10-09T23:59' end: '2017-10-12T23:45' but that needed to be adjusted (https://review.openstack.org/509654/) While that was still the same duration it was mid-week.That's three days, one of which was a saturday. Was it always this short ? It seems to me that this is not a lot of time to the community to ask (read, and answer) thoughful questions.There used to be no campaigning period at all, so it had been shorter :)I realize this doesn't mean you can't keep asking questions once the actual election voting start but I wonder if we should cut a few days from the nomination and give it to the campaigning.I can't find anything that documents how long the nomination period needed to be, perhaps I missed it? So we could do this but it's already quite short. So more likely we could just extend the Campaigning period if that's the consensus.Duration of campaigning period is not mandated by the TC charter, so left at the appreciation of election officials.The whole election takes close to 3 weeks of officials time so I'd like to ask we be mindful of that before we extend things too muchIt's clearly a balance between having interesting discussions and triggering election fatigue. I'd say we need to have /some/ campaigning time but not too much :) Ideally discussions would start once people self-nominate, and we could keep the period between nomination close and election start relatively short (3/4 business days max).
As an observation, participating in the elections (not only as an election official but also as a candidate) can be stressful. I personally don't think the campaing period was too short. I saw enough interactions between candidates and the rest of the community, which was useful for me to make up my mind and vote. This is, of course, my own view and I don't mean to imply David's view is not valid. I would be a bit hesitant to make the total election period too long but I'm sure we cand adjust a few things here and there. I would also prefer waiting until the nomination period is closed to start discussion. It might not feel fair if the discussions start early and then some candidacies use the data from the discussions as promotion. Again, personal preference. Flavio -- @flaper87 Flavio Percoco
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