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How to steve vote…
- Announcement that voting process is soon starting, outlining timeline of following phases
- Nomination period starts. Nominations are emailed as new threads with subject "
[NOMINATION] <name>
" - Nomination period closes, and Nomination acceptance period starts. Nominees accept or decline their nomination in the corresponding thread. A position statement is in the same email.
- Nomination acceptance period closes.
- The main vote monitor creates the STeVe vote.
- Create an INFRA ticket asking for access to vote.apache.org, e.g. INFRA-22955
- Log into https://vote.apache.org/admin/
- Click on "Create a new election"
- Fill out details for the new election
- Fill out fields according to screenshot…
- Owner is your apache ID
- Add three other monitors. Each monitor must also fill out a INFRA ticket requesting access to vote.a.o
- Add the start and end dates
- Add Issue.
- Fill out fields according to screenshot.
- Add candidates, one per line. (Alphabetical by surname is the precedence.)
- Hit Create Issue.
- Cue Monitors.
- Invite people.
- If this is a private PMC vote, gather everyone's apache IDs from https://whimsy.apache.org/roster/committee/cassandra
- The voting period starts.
- Send an announcement to the appropriate mailing list that a vote is in progress and everyone should have received their ballot by email.
- The voting period closes.
- Hit "Close election"
- The votes are tallied, the results announced.