From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932275AbdJZAZq (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Oct 2017 20:25:46 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([65.50.211.136]:57759 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751893AbdJZAZn (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Oct 2017 20:25:43 -0400 Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board election results 2017 To: Laurent Pinchart , ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org Cc: tech-board-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org, Kernel Summit Discussions , Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <9779b6c3-acd6-10aa-b9ca-c024cd77a861@zytor.com> <2984302.a0WA3y5s5U@avalon> From: "H. Peter Anvin" Message-ID: Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2017 02:23:20 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <2984302.a0WA3y5s5U@avalon> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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