TSC Voting Records

This page keeps track of all votes made by the TSC with a summary of the outcome and a more detailed section listing each individual vote.

Summary

Votes

2025-11-27

Motion: Add TSC Member: Minas Hambardzumyan

• Result: approved
• Effective date: 2025-11-27
• Voting method: meeting
• Voting members: broonie, denys, gustavo, yogesh
• Vote count: 4/4/5 in favour
• Links: Notes

Motion: Add TSC Member: Ben Copeland

• Result: approved
• Effective date: 2025-11-27
• Voting method: meeting
• Voting members: broonie, denys, gustavo, yogesh
• Vote count: 4/4/5 in favour
• Links: Notes

Motion: Formally approve voting in new TSC members under the new charter

• Description: Current member can put a motion through suggesting new members to be added to the TSC. If elect, new members term finishes together with the community elected members. The next election will be for the number of members at the end of the TSC term (minus one because the Infrastructure Committee is appointed directly as per charter rules).
• Result: approved
• Effective date: 2025-11-27
• Voting method: meeting
• Voting members: broonie, denys, gustavo, yogesh
• Vote count: 4/4/5 in favour
• Links: Notes

2025-07-30

Motion: Approve the new KernelCI TSC Charter

• Result: approved
• Effective date: 2025-07-30
• Voting method: email
• Voting members: khilman, broonie, gtucker, arisut, nuclearcat, jeny, shuah, mgalka
• Vote count: 8/8/9 in favour
• Links: Mail 2025-07-30

Motion: Set up the Infrastructure Committee with Denys, Pawel, Arisu, Jeny, Tales, Mark Brown and Gustavo as their initial members

• Result: approved
• Effective date: 2025-07-30
• Voting method: email
• Voting members: khilman, broonie, gtucker, arisut, nuclearcat, jeny, shuah, mgalka
• Vote count: 8/8/9 in favour
• Links: Mail 2025-07-30

2025-03-12

Motion: Set Denys Fedoryshchenko as kernelci PyPI maintainer

• Result: approved
• Effective date: 2025-03-17
• Voting method: email
• Voting members: khilman, broonie, gtucker, spbnick, arisut, nuclearcat, pawiecz, shuah
• Vote count: 8/8/9 in favour
• Links: Mail 2024-03-12

Motion: Add Arisu Tachibana as kernelci PyPI co-maintainer

• Result: approved
• Effective date: 2025-03-17
• Voting method: email
• Voting members: khilman, broonie, gtucker, spbnick, arisut, nuclearcat, pawiecz, shuah
• Vote count: 8/8/9 in favour
• Links: Mail 2024-03-12

2025-01-22

Motion: Archiving legacy or inactive repositories

• kernelci-jenkins
• lava-docker
• kernelci-frontend
• kernelci-backend
• kernelci-jenkins-data
• kernelci-backend-config
• builder-config2
• kernelci-frontend-config
• builder-config-data
• kernelci-docker
• kernelci-tekton
• skipgen
• kernelci-admin
• kernelci-core-staging
• kernelci-doc
• kernelci-reports-config
• kernelci-reports

• Result: approved
• Effective date: 2025-02-25
• Voting method: Maillist
• Voting members: nuclearcat, spbnick, khilman, gtucker, arisut, broonie, pawiecz
• Vote count: 7/7/9 in favour

2024-11-12

Motion: Appoint Discord server administrators

Appoint the following people as Discord server administrators:

• Nikolai Kondrashov
• Gustavo Padovan
• Arisu Tachibana
• Denys Fedoryshchenko

• Result: approved
• Effective date: 2024-11-12
• Voting method: Maillist
• Voting members: nuclearcat, pawiecz, spbnick, khilman, gtucker, arisut, broonie
• Vote count: 7/7/9 in favour

Motion: Host test catalog prototype repo on the GitHub organization

• Result: approved
• Effective date: 2024-11-12
• Voting method: Maillist
• Voting members: nuclearcat, pawiecz, spbnick, khilman, gtucker, arisut, broonie
• Vote count: 7/7/9 in favour

Motion: Create “logspec” repository in the GitHub organization

• Result: approved
• Effective date: 2024-11-12
• Voting method: Maillist
• Voting members: nuclearcat, pawiecz, spbnick, khilman, gtucker, arisut, broonie
• Vote count: 7/7/9 in favour

2024-10-31

Motion: Move from Slack to Discord as our main chat system

• Result: approved
• Effective date: 2024-10-31
• Voting method: Maillist
• Voting members: nuclearcat, shuah, pawiecz, spbnick, khilman, gtucker, mgalka
• Vote count: 7/7/9 in favour

2024-09-05

Motion: Add Paweł Wieczorek to the sysadmin working group

• Result: approved
• Effective date: 2024-09-05
• Voting method: Maillist
• Voting members: arisut, nuclearcat, shuah, pawiecz, spbnick, jenysadadia, khilman, broonie, gtucker
• Vote count: 8/8/9 in favour

2024-08-13

Motion: Transfer the kci-dev repo from Arisu to KernelCI organization

• Result: approved
• Effective date: 2024-08-13
• Voting method: Maillist
• Voting members: arisut, nuclearcat, shuah, pawiecz, spbnick, jenysadadia, khilman
• Vote count: 6/7/10 in favour, 1/7/10 abstained

Motion: Give Arisu admin privileges to the moved kci-dev repo

• Result: approved
• Effective date: 2024-08-13
• Voting method: Maillist
• Voting members: arisut, nuclearcat, shuah, pawiecz, spbnick, jenysadadia, khilman
• Vote count: 6/7/10 in favour, 1/7/10 abstained

Motion: Add kci-dev and Arisu as its maintainer to the docs

• Result: approved
• Effective date: 2024-08-13
• Voting method: Maillist
• Voting members: arisut, nuclearcat, shuah, pawiecz, spbnick, jenysadadia, khilman
• Vote count: 6/7/10 in favour, 1/7/10 abstained

2024-07-11

Motion: Create repository for the new dashboard

Create dashboard repository in the kernelci organization on GitHub, to host the code for the new web dashboard.

Votes

• Result: approved
• Effective date: 2024-07-11
• Voting method: Maillist
• Voting members: pawiecz, broonie, spbnick, nuclearcat, jenysadadia, gtucker, arisut, shuah, khilman
• Vote count: 9/9/10 in favour

2024-06-21

Motion: Make thelinuxfoundation a GitHub org owner

Add thelinuxfoundation user account as an “owner” to the KernelCI GitHub organization. So that we can setup their insights dashboard.

Votes

• Result: approved
• Effective date: 2024-06-21
• Voting method: Maillist
• Voting members: broonie, gtucker, spbnick, nuclearcat, jenysadadia, arisut
• Vote count: 6/6/10 in favour

2024-05-13

Motion: Cleanup admin permissions

Amend the following permissions for Guillaume Tucker, as he’s relinquished his administrative roles:

• Replace “Super admin” role with “Analyst”, on the LinkedIn kernelci.org organization
• Replace “Owner” membership with “Member” on GitHub organization.
• Replace “Workspace Admin” account type with “Regular Member” on Slack.

Amend the following permissions for Tyler Baker, as he’s no longer involved with KernelCI:

• Replace “Super admin” role with “Analyst”, on the LinkedIn kernelci.org organization

Votes

• Result: approved
• Effective date: 2024-05-13
• Voting method: Maillist
• Voting members: khilman, broonie, gtucker, spbnick, mgalka, nuclearcat, jenysadadia, shuah, arisut
• Vote count: 9/9/10 in favour

2024-03-14

Motion: Add TSC Member: Shuah Khan

• Result: approved
• Effective date: 2024-03-18
• Voting method: TSC monthly
• Voting members: arisut, broonie, gtucker, nuclearcat, pawiecz, spbnick
• Vote count: 6/6/8 in favour

Motion: Elect TSC Chair

• Candidates: Shuah Khan, Nikolai Kondrashov
• Elected: Nikolai Kondrashov
• Result: approved
• Effective date: 2024-04-01
• Voting method: TSC monthly
• Voting members: arisut, broonie, gtucker, nuclearcat, pawiecz, spbnick
• Vote count: 4/6/8 for Nikolai, 1/6/8 for Shuah, 1/6/8 abstained

2024-02-08

Motion: Add TSC Member: Paweł Wieczorek

• Result: approved
• Effective date: 2024-02-12
• Voting method: TSC monthly
• Voting members: arisut, broonie, gtucker, nuclearcat, Jeny, spbnick
• Vote count: 6/8, 6/6 in favour

Motion: Make groups.io maintainers full owners

• Result: approved
• Effective date: 2024-02-12
• Voting method: TSC monthly
• Voting members: arisut, broonie, gtucker, nuclearcat, Jeny, spbnick
• Vote count: 6/8, 6/6 in favour

2023-12-14

Motion: Add TSC member: Jeny Sadadia

• Result: approved
• Effective date: 2023-12-18
• Voting method: email
• Voting members: arisut, broonie, gtucker, nuclearcat
• Vote count: 4/7, 4/4 in favour

Motion: Add Denys as kernelci-project maintainer

• Result: approved
• Effective date: 2023-12-18
• Voting method: email
• Voting members: arisut, broonie, gtucker, nuclearcat
• Vote count: 4/7, 4/4 in favour

Motion: Replace Michał with Denys as Docker Hub admin

• Result: approved
• Effective date: 2023-12-18
• Voting method: email
• Voting members: arisut, broonie, gtucker, nuclearcat
• Vote count: 4/7, 4/4 in favour

Motion: Add Denys as GitHub KernelCI organisation admin

• Result: approved
• Effective date: 2023-12-18
• Voting method: email
• Voting members: arisut, broonie, gtucker, nuclearcat
• Vote count: 4/7, 4/4 in favour

2023-10-12

Motion: Remove TSC member: Corentin Labbe

• Result: approved
• Effective date: 2023-11-17
• Voting method: email
• Voting members: arisut, broonie, gtucker, khilman, nuclearcat
• Vote count: 5/8, 5/5 in favour

2023-08-10

Motion: Add Jeny to kernelci-core maintainers

• Result: approved
• Effective date: 2023-08-10
• Voting method: regular TSC meeting
• Voting members: spbnick, broonie, gtucker, nuclearcat, arisut
• Vote count: 5/8, 4/5 in favour (broonie had to drop out of the meeting)

2023-04-13

Motion: Apply for Docker Hub’s Open Source Program

• Result: approved
• Effective date: 2023-04-13
• Voting method: regular TSC meeting
• Voting members: broonie, spbnick, mgalka, gtucker, nuclearcat, arisut
• Vote count: 6/8, 6/6 in favour

Motion: Set up Harbour as Docker registry / cache

• Result: approved
• Effective date: 2023-04-13
• Voting method: regular TSC meeting
• Voting members: broonie, spbnick, mgalka, gtucker, nuclearcat, arisut
• Vote count: 6/8, 4/6 in favour

Note: We could try Azure first and consider setting up Harbour later on, or maybe only for caching.

Motion: Subscribe to Azure Container Registry (Premium)

• Result: approved
• Effective date: 2023-04-13
• Voting method: regular TSC meeting
• Voting members: broonie, spbnick, mgalka, gtucker, nuclearcat, arisut
• Vote count: 6/8, 6/6 in favour

Note: If we start a subscription, we should have a trial period to verify the limits match the expectations. Then if there’s a problem we may stop the subscription (e.g. if “500 actions” or other implicit limits are make it unusable for us).

Motion: Add mgalka to Linux Foundation SysAdmin JIRA

• Result: approved
• Effective date: 2023-04-13
• Voting method: regular TSC meeting
• Voting members: broonie, spbnick, mgalka, gtucker, nuclearcat, arisut
• Vote count: 6/8, 6/6 in favour

Note: This wasn’t necessary, anyone can create a JIRA ticket asking for DNS changes. It’s up to the LF sysadmins to moderate the requests.

2023-03-09

Motion: Add grafana-singlevalue-panel repository

• Result: approved
• Effective date: 2023-03-09
• Voting method: regular TSC meeting
• Voting members: broonie, spbnick, mgalka, gtucker, nuclearcat
• Vote count: 5/8, 5/5 in favour

Motion: Remove TSC member: Alexandra Pereira

• Result: approved
• Effective date: 2023-03-09
• Voting method: regular TSC meeting
• Voting members: broonie, spbnick, mgalka, gtucker, nuclearcat
• Vote count: 5/8, 5/5 in favour

Motion: Hold occasional weekly in US Pacific-friendly timezone

• Result: approved
• The motion wasn’t precise enough, followed up by email
• https://groups.io/g/kernelci-tsc/topic/amer_timezone_tsc_meetings/97493438

2023-01-12

Motion: Add cros-ec-tests repository to KernelCI GitHub organisation

• Result: approved
• Effective date: 2023-01-23
• Voting method: regular TSC meeting
• Voting members: mgalka, arisut, broonie, gtucker, nuclearcat, spbnick
• Vote count: 6/9 voting, 6/6 in favour

2022-12-08

Motion: Confirm a list of the components to which each member of the sysadmin subgroup should have access

• Result: approved
• Effective date: 2022-12-08
• Voting method: regular TSC meeting/Mail
• Voting members: mgalka, nuclearcat, gtucker, spbnick, broonie, arisut, khilman
• Vote count: 7/9 voting, 7/7 in favour
• Links: Mail 2022-12-08

Motion: Add mgalka to the GitHub admins team

• Result: approved
• Effective date: 2022-12-08
• Voting method: regular TSC meeting/Mail
• Voting members: nuclearcat, gtucker, spbnick, broonie, arisut, khilman, (mgalka abstain)
• Vote count: 6/9 voting, 6/6 in favour
• Links: Mail 2022-12-08

Motion: Adopt the currently documented TSC rules as a starting point

• Result: approved
• Effective date: 2022-12-08
• Voting method: regular TSC meeting/Mail
• Voting members: mgalka, nuclearcat, gtucker, spbnick, broonie, arisut, khilman
• Vote count: 7/9 voting, 7/7 in favour
• Links: Mail 2022-12-08

2022-06-09

Add TSC member: Denys Fedoryshchenko

• Result: approved
• Effective date: 2022-06-09
• Voting method: regular TSC meeting
• Voting members: gtucker, apereira, spbnick, broonie, arisut
• Vote count: 5/8 voting, 5/5 in favour
• Links: PR #121

2022-02-10

Remove TSC member: Lakshmipathi Ganapathi

• Result: approved
• Effective date: 2022-02-10
• Voting method: regular TSC meeting
• Voting members: arisut, apereira, spbnick, broonie, gtucker, laks (deferred)
• Vote count: 6/9 voting, 6/6 in favour
• Links: PR #100

2021-07-13

Add TSC member: Arisu Tachibana

• Result: approved
• Effective date: 2021-07-13
• Voting method: regular TSC meeting
• Voting members: broonie, apereira, mgalka, laks, gtucker
• Vote count: 5/8 voting, 5/5 in favour
• Links: PR #18