Re: lack of candidates 2026 leader election

Hi,

On 3/20/26 18:57, Jonathan Carter wrote:

> I'd like to add a 3rd option (after the elections). Propose a GR for a 
> change in the voting process, that if any candidates nominate themselves 
> in the last 12 hours of the nomination process, then the nomination 
> window extends by another 48h to allow someone who specifically wants to 
> challenge that person to do so.

I don't see the benefit of that, because such a candidate must have been 
sufficiently disinterested to find it acceptable if no candidates step 
forward (because that is someone else's problem), yet feel strongly 
enough about another candidate that they suddenly decide that the time 
commitment of being DPL is so insubstantial that they can decide that on 
a whim.

> It's perhaps not perfect, but it would 
> catch a lot of cases that people are concerned about
I don't think we have to cater to people who are expressing unspecified 
"concern." Either there is an issue, or there isn't.

I don't see one, and intend to vote the same way as in the last two 
elections, with Sruthi in top position.

    Simon

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