On 10/30/2014 09:32 AM, Eoghan Glynn wrote: > > >>>>> IIRC, there is no method for removing foundation members. So there >>>>> are likely a number of people listed who have moved on to other >>>>> activities and are no longer involved with OpenStack. I'd actually >>>>> be quite interested to see the turnout numbers with voters who >>>>> missed the last two elections prior to this one filtered out. >>>> >>>> Well, the base electorate for the TC are active contributors with >>>> patches landed to official projects within the past year, so these >>>> are devs getting their code merged but not interested in voting. >>>> This is somewhat different from (though potentially related to) the >>>> "dead weight" foundation membership on the rolls for board >>>> elections. >>>> >>>> Also, foundation members who have not voted in two board elections >>>> are being removed from the membership now, from what I understand >>>> (we just needed to get to the point where we had two years worth of >>>> board elections in the first place). >>> >>> Thanks, I lost my mind here and confused the board with the TC. >>> >>> So then my next question is, of those who did not vote, how many are >>> from under-represented companies? A higher percentage there might point >>> to disenfranchisement. >> >> Different but related question (might be hard to calculate though): >> >> If we remove people who have only ever landed one patch from the >> electorate, what do the turnout numbers look like? 2? 5? >> >> Do we have the ability to dig in slightly and find a natural definition >> or characterization amongst our currently voting electorate that might >> help us understand who the people are who do vote and what it is about >> those people who might be or feel different or more enfranchised? I've >> personally been thinking that the one-patch rule is, while tractable, >> potentially strange for turnout - especially when one-patch also gets >> you a free summit pass... but I have no data to say what actually >> defined "active" in active technical contributor. > > Again, the ballots are anonymized so we've no way of doing that analysis. > > The best we could IIUC would be to analyze the electoral roll, bucketizing > by number of patches landed, to see if there's a significant long-tail of > potential voters with very few patches.
Just looking at stackalytices numbers for Juno: Out of 1556 committers, 1071 have committed more than one patch and 485 only a single patch. That's a third! Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger aj@{suse.com,opensuse.org} Twitter: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn,Jennifer Guild,Felix Imendörffer,HRB16746 (AG Nürnberg) GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126 _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev