Re: lack of candidates 2026 leader election

On 20/03/26 at 11:57 +0200, Jonathan Carter wrote:
> On 2026/03/20 10:41, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> > I also would prefer if there was more than one candidate, but perhaps
> > changing the rules during the election isn't what we want.
> > 
> > There's in fact 2 ways this could happen.
> > 
> > 1/ Sruthi (temporarily) withdraw her nomination, just in order to
> > restart the nomination period. Is this really possible?
> > 
> > 2/ Sruthi refuses to do 1/, and A majority vote NotA.
> 
> 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.

Maybe let's not specify that the second candidate must specifically want
to challenge the first candidate :-) People should be allowed to
nominate near the end of the window without having to justify
themselves.

Lucas