linux-kernel - Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board election results 2017

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Message-ID: <dcabec8a-ed6c-bfb0-d601-1913f1e6ec8d@zytor.com>
Date:   Thu, 26 Oct 2017 02:23:20 +0200
From:   "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:     Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>,
        ksummit-discuss@...ts.linuxfoundation.org
Cc:     tech-board-discuss@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        Kernel Summit Discussions 
        <ksummit-discuss@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board
 election results 2017

On 10/26/17 00:14, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
>
>> It was a very close election, with the next candidate on the list
>> receiving 36 votes.
> 
> Do we have a procedure in place in case the tie that we only avoided by one 
> vote would have happened ?
> 

In that case thw winner(s) would be drawn randomly.  The scanning tool
scripts actually assigns each candidate a tiebreaker number via
/dev/urandom, but we have not yet decided if we would do that or, for
example, a physical coin toss.

We have had ties in the past, and had one this time too, but none that
has ever crossed the cut line.

	-hpa