document house rules for approving election results

There is no reason to treat election results as requiring a formal
vote, so document them as a special case under house rules, along with
the reasoning. Update the review status tool to reflect this change.

Change-Id: If907b2f4627da289f76e3a8b92d49f08a116535d
Signed-off-by: Doug Hellmann <doug@doughellmann.com>

reference/house-rules.rst

@@ -42,6 +42,21 @@ etc.), follow the normal code review rules (with RollCall votes being
 considered +-2): change will be approved once 2 `RollCall+1` (other
 than the change owner) are posted (and no `RollCall-1`).
 
+Election Results
+----------------
+
+:Gerrit topic: ``election-results``
+
+The results of elections are documented in the `openstack/governance`
+repository, but are not subject to "review" or "approval" by the TC,
+other than to confirm that they accurately reflect the outcome of the
+election. Patches to update those results for TC and PTL elections
+should be reviewed and confirmed by the election officials, and then
+approved and merged following the normal code review rules (with
+RollCall votes being considered +-2): change will be approved once 2
+`RollCall+1` (other than the change owner) are posted (and no
+`RollCall-1`).
+
 Delegated tags
 --------------
 

tools/check_review_status.py

@@ -317,8 +317,10 @@ def get_one_status(change, delegates, tc_members):
         else:
             can_approve = 'YES'
 
-    elif topic in ('code-change', 'documentation-change'):
+    elif topic in ('code-change', 'documentation-change', 'election-results'):
         # https://governance.openstack.org/tc/reference/house-rules.html#code-changes
+        # https://governance.openstack.org/tc/reference/house-rules.html#documentation-changes
+        # https://governance.openstack.org/tc/reference/house-rules.html#election-results
         if votes[-1] or code_reviews[-1]:
             can_approve = 'dissenting votes'
         elif votes[1] < 2: