2022 Election and By-laws approval voting OPEN

[Lyude Paul]

On Fri, 2022-04-08 at 04:12 +0200, Luc Verhaegen wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 05, 2022 at 08:18:32AM +0300, Martin Roukala wrote:
> > On 4/5/22 01:34, Luc Verhaegen wrote:
> > > On Mon, Apr 04, 2022 at 03:34:40PM -0400, Lyude Paul wrote:
> > > > To all X.Org Foundation Members:
> > > > 
> > > > 2. For the election: There is a pull-down selection of candidates next
> > > > to each
> > > >     preference level.
> > > > 
> > > >     Note that you are NOT required to select your preferences for all
> > > >     6 candidates. You can leave more than one blank.
> > > 
> > > This part is incorrect, and has been so since the redesign of the voting
> > > system a few years ago.
> > > 
> > > If you leave a slot open and press "Cast vote", it will come back to you
> > > and ask for a valid entry in the first empty slot.
> > > 
> > > I am not sure, but I believe this was flagged the first time this new
> > > system was put in place, but there was iirc already a rerun that year
> > > due to hiccups in the new voting system.
> > > 
> > > Luc Verhaegen.
> > 
> ...
> > I even filed the
> > bug for it 3 years ago...
> > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorgfoundation/xorg_membership/-/issues/33
> 
> This bug fundamentally skews the results of this voting system and thus
> the election. Will this be fixed for this election still?
> 
> Similarly, pretty much the only metric members have is the way X.org
> sponsors
> money has been getting used. I seem to remember reading that SPI did provide
> some data this time round, but i do not remember seeing treasurer report.
> Perhaps i missed it.

You're right about the treasurer report missing JFYI. Just to give some
explanation: unfortunately right now this one isn't on us, it's a result of
all of the issues we've been having with SPI taking way too long to get back
to us regarding finances. It's one of the reasons we're going to be starting
to look into alternative parent organizations, which we'll likely bring up in
next year's election so members can vote on such a change.

> 
> Luc Verhaegen.
> 

-- 
Cheers,
 Lyude Paul (she/her)
 Software Engineer at Red Hat