Why not sign the CLA? That’s all that is required for being eligible to vote. You can find it in FAS.
That’s not how it works. See Elections Guide :: Fedora Docs for more info on the elections.
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The wording of that error is outdated, as we do not have a Contributor License Agreement — but the substance is correct. cla-done means that you’ve agreed to the Fedora Project Contributor Agreement. Please see the documented Eligibility Requirements.
We aren’t going to count votes from forum posts.
I didn’t even realize I’m not eligible to vote! Sorry! It’s not for Fedora community, it’s for Fedora contributors only.
That’s a somewhat blurry line in Fedora, as we want to invite all community members to become contributors — and as you can see, as we’ve set it now, the bar is not high. We do not have a formal process like Debian New Members Corner in Debian[1]
We’ve talked about making voting eligibility more strict. We don’t want, for example, someone who has not really been involved in the project — or who is even hostile for some reason — doing a social media campaign and getting not-really-Fedora-community-people to sign up and vote. But, in 15 years of Fedora elections, we haven’t really had anything like that happens. If that kind of thing does become a problem, we’ll have to revisit the rules.
In the meantime, we can make this more clear in our future communications so it’s less confusing.
although individual teams, like package-maintainers, have their own rules ↩︎
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