Re: [Tech-board-discuss] Reminder: Voting procedures for the Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board

[Laura Abbott <laura@labbott.name>]

On 9/15/21 15:34, Shuah Khan wrote:
> On 9/15/21 10:13 AM, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
>> Hi Laura,
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 12:07:13PM -0400, Laura Abbott wrote:
>>> On 9/15/21 10:46, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 10:36:45AM -0400, Laura Abbott wrote:
>>>>> On 9/15/21 10:07, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
>>>>>> On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 09:58:32AM -0400, Laura Abbott wrote:
>>>>>>> On 9/9/21 12:49, Laura Abbott wrote:
>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Reminder that the Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board 
>>>>>>>> (TAB) annual
>>>>>>>> election will be held virtually during the 2021 Kernel Summit 
>>>>>>>> and Linux
>>>>>>>> Plumbers Conference. Voting will run from September 20th to 
>>>>>>>> September
>>>>>>>> 23rd 16:00 GMT-4 (US/Eastern). The voting criteria for the 2021 
>>>>>>>> election
>>>>>>>> are:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> There exist three kernel commits in a mainline or stable released
>>>>>>>> kernel that both
>>>>>>>> - Have a commit date in the year 2020 or 2021
>>>>>>>> - Contain an e-mail address in one of the following tags or merged
>>>>>>>> tags (e.g. Reviewed-and-tested-by)
>>>>>>>> -- Signed-off-by
>>>>>>>> -- Tested-by
>>>>>>>> -- Reported-by
>>>>>>>> -- Reviewed-by
>>>>>>>> -- Acked-by
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> If you have more than 50 commits that meet this requirement you 
>>>>>>>> will
>>>>>>>> receive a ballot automatically.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> If you have between 3 and 49 commits that meet this requirement 
>>>>>>>> please
>>>>>>>> e-mail tab-elections@lists.linuxfoundation.org to request your 
>>>>>>>> ballot.
>>>>>>>> We strongly encourage everyone who meets this criteria to request a
>>>>>>>> ballot.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> We will be using Condorcet Internet Voting
>>>>>>>> Service (CIVS) https://civs1.civs.us/ . This is a voting service
>>>>>>>> focused on security and privacy. There are sample polls on the
>>>>>>>> website if you would like to see what a ballot will look like.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> If you have any questions please e-mail
>>>>>>>> tab-elections@lists.linuxfoundation.org.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>> Laura
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> P.S. Please also consider this another reminder to consider 
>>>>>>>> running for
>>>>>>>> the TAB as well
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Final reminder: please remember to request your ballot for the TAB
>>>>>>> elections. If you know others who are eligible please encourage
>>>>>>> them to request a ballot as well.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> When are the ballots supposed to be sent ? It would be nice to avoid
>>>>>> requiring everybody to check whether they're below or above the 50
>>>>>> commits threshold manually :-)
>>>>>
>>>>> The ballots will be sent sometime after Monday September 20th
>>>>> 9:00am GMT-4 (US/Eastern).
>>>>>
>>>>> I did make an attempt to send e-mails to the > 50 commits individuals
>>>>> but there is a chance my e-mail got eaten by spam filters or just
>>>>> didn't get sent out. I discovered Google Apps' e-mail limits and
>>>>> that you should not attempt to bcc too many people. This is something
>>>>> I'd like to handle in a more automated fashion next year to make
>>>>> it easier for both voters and those running the elections.
>>>>
>>>> Does it mean I should ask for a ballot after the 20th if I don't get
>>>> one, or request one *before* ? I meet the above criteria but haven't
>>>> received any ballot yet, so I was unsure whether I should ask or wait.
>>>
>>> The intention was that if you were in the range of between 3-49 commits
>>> you would ask for a ballot now.
>>
>> Would it be possible to share the script that you are using to check in
>> which category a developer is, to avoid the criteria being applied in
>> slightly different ways ?
>>
> 
> Same request. Is this the same script that gets used to determine candidate
> eligibility before they get added to the ballot?
> 
> thanks,
> -- Shuah

You can thank Kees for the script

https://github.com/kees/kernel-tools/blob/trunk/identity-canonicalizer

This is the same script for both voting and nomination

The set generated is

# Find people participating in 50+ commits since 2020-01-01:
git log --since=2020-01-01 | ~/bin/identity-canonicalizer | sort -g > 
contributors.txt
cat contributors.txt | awk '{if ($1 > 2) {print $0}}' >eligible.txt
cat eligible.txt | awk '{if ($1 > 49) {print $0}}' >ballots.txt