Proposed: create Elections subproject of SIG-contribex

[jberkus]

Per @parispittman proposal during SIG-Contribex meeting today:

New Subproject: Elections, SIG-Contribex

The elections subproject would own:

• Recruiting and proposing the Election Committee for the annual Steering elections
• Supporting SIGs and committees in using elections.k8s.io to run other elections for their group (starting in 2022)
• The elections.k8s.io app, shared with SIG-Infra, including /k8s.io/apps/elekto
• A new /elections directory in this repository (historical elections would be moved there)
• Documentation on running elections, and maintenance of that documentation
• /area/elections label (Request /area/elections label for this repo #6083)

It is also possible that this could just be a named role, and not a subproject, but Elections seems to own enough things to make it a de-facto subproject.

Discuss? If we want to do this, I'll write up a full charter.

/sig contributor-experience

[jberkus]

/area elections

[parispittman]

+1

this would be extremely useful and a good way to organize this work

[parispittman]

related: #4586

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[jberkus]

/remove-lifecycle stale

[parispittman]

/assign @nikhita @cblecker

[jberkus]

FYI: this is mainly waiting on me to do all the directory re-arranging as a PR. That's more complicated than it sounds because moving the elections directory affects our running instance of Elekto.

[parispittman]

@jberkus we still need a TL to approve the concept

[jberkus]

Ah, point. Well, no rush.

[cblecker]

No objections from me.

@nikhita thoughts?

[nikhita]

+1

cc @kubernetes/steering-committee - no action needed, just fyi.

[nikhita]

cc @mrbobbytables @alisondy

[mrbobbytables]

lgtm from me - it was one of the big things to come out of the retro.

[cblecker]

@jberkus you're clear to proceed :)

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[jberkus]

this is still planned.

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[jberkus]

This is created.

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