Thanks, Tracy. Can we get the blog post corrected? [Edit: looks like it’s been corrected.]
And I guess there will there be another individual election when Catharina’s term expires in October, yes?
[Updating to work around platform limitations on repeated replies.]
Proponents of the OSI Reform Platform have generated quite a bit of heat, but where there is heat there can also be light. Bradley’s second point in his recent post about election irregularities seems valid to me, that misstating the seats in the election materially affects its fairness:
If we had known there were two Affiliate seats and just one Member seat, Debian (an OSI Affiliate) would have nominated Luke a week early to the Affiliate seat.
Bradley’s two proposed solutions are to:
- briefly reopen nominations and extend the voting deadline, or
- end advisory elections in favor of simple self-perpetuation.
I’m willing to continue with the election as currently constituted, but I also want to go on record that I think Bradley has a valid point, and I would be fine with either of his proposed solutions.