governance/reference/tc-chair-elections.rst
Ghanshyam Mann 07f1ef4201 Adding TC chair election process: nomination in governance repo
As discussed in PTG[1], we need to define the process
for the TC chair nomination and election.

This commit adds one of the proposal discussed in the PTG
which is to record the nomination in governance repo.

[1] https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/tc-2023-1-ptg#L486

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TC Chair Election Process
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As mentioned in `TC charter <https://governance.openstack.org/tc/reference/charter.html#tc-chair>`_,
in case of multiple candidates for TC chair, we need to conduct the election.
This document defines the process and timeline for the TC Chair election.
TC Chair Nomination
===================
* TC chair nomination will be open for three business days after the TC
elections are closed.
* Each candidate will propose a gerrit change to add their nomination as
a text file (with name <email_address>.txt) containing the candidate
statement to the ``openstack/governance/reference/tc-chair-candidates/<cycle>/``
repository.
* Current TC chair will merge the nominations by confirming that they are from
the elected TC members.
TC Chair Election
=================
* In case of single nomination, no election is needed and candidate can propose
a patch to the member list to add "chair" status next to their name and use
`election-results` as gerrit topic name.
* If there are multiple nominations, select a TC member who is not running for
the TC chair to establish a CIVS poll to choose the single winner.
* All the elected TC members including the TC chair candidates will be the
electorates for chair election.
* Election poll will be open for seven days or until all the TC members have
voted.
* Winner will propose a patch to the member list to add "chair" status next to
their name and use `election-results` as gerrit topic name.