2026 Bootstrap Steering Committee Election and call for nominations
Goutham Veeramachaneni
Under the new Prometheus governance, we are holding a bootstrap election to seat the first Steering Committee.
- Anyone who is a maintainer of github.com/prometheus and github.com/prometheus-community is eligible to vote and stand in the elections.
- Nomination period until 8 June 2026. Voting between 15 June – 29 June 2026
- Ensure your email is available in MAINTAINERS.md of the relevant repos
- Opt-in to receive a ballot at https://civs1.civs.us/cgi-bin/opt_in.pl
cycle going forward. Full details, including the company-representation cap and tie-breaking rules, are in the election document: 2026 Steering Committee Election
Schedule
18 May 2026 — Call for nominations opens (today); voters list published
8 June 2026 23:59 UTC — Deadline to submit nominations
12 June 2026 — Official nominees list published; deadline to request a voter eligibility review
15 June – 29 June 2026 — Voting period (closes 29 June 23:59 UTC)
Soon after — Results announced; new Steering
Committee seated; new governance comes
into effect
To nominate yourself
Read the Governance document and confirm you are ready for the
commitment: https://github.com/prometheus/governance/blob/main/GOVERNANCE.md
If you're interested, add your nomination at `candidate-<your-githubid>.md` under `elections/2026/`, and open a PR
against prometheus/governance before 8 June 2026 23:59 UTC: nomination template
To vote
The canonical voters list is derived from accounts with write access
across the prometheus and prometheus-community GitHub organizations:
https://github.com/prometheus/governance/blob/main/elections/2026/voters-list/write-access.csv
If you are a maintainer of a github.com/prometheus or github.com/prometheus-community repository, you are eligible to vote — but we can only reach you if your email is public. Please make sure your repository has a `MAINTAINERS.md` listing you with a contact email. If you believe you should be eligible but are not on the list, you can also submit a review request before 12 June 2026 23:59 UTC at:
https://forms.gle/tasSbJ9cQdsfj5GV9
All existing prometheus-team members are automatically eligible.
Voting will be conducted via CIVS (Condorcet Internet Voting Service), using ranked Condorcet with Instant Runoff Voting as the tie-breaker. Voting is private — nobody, including the Election Officers, will know any individual's vote.
To receive your ballot when voting opens on 15 June 2026, please opt
in via the CIVS form: https://civs1.civs.us/cgi-bin/opt_in.pl
Election Officers
Arianna Vespri (@vesari)
Goutham Veeramachaneni (@gouthamve)
Joe Adams (@sysadmind)
Please direct questions to the Election Officers, or to the electionannouncements issue .
Thanks for participating — and please take a moment to nominate
yourself or someone you'd encourage to run.
— The 2026 Bootstrap Election Officers
Goutham Veeramachaneni
Hello Prometheus Developers,
The nomination period for the 2026 Prometheus Steering Committee election has officially closed. Thank you to everyone who submitted a nomination!
1. Candidates Announced We have a great set of nominations, and you can read about them here:
2. Voter Opt-In & Eligibility Verification As we prepare the ballots for the upcoming Condorcet voting process, we are asking all eligible voters to explicitly opt-in to ensure you receive your voting link. If you do not opt-in, you will not receive your ballot in your email, and you will not be able to vote.
Before opting in, please verify that your email address is correctly documented in both of the following locations:
The project's MAINTAINERS.md file.
The 2026 voters list: https://github.com/prometheus/governance/blob/main/elections/2026/voters-list/write-access.csv
3. What if my email (or name) is missing? If you are an eligible voter and your name or email is missing from the list, or if it is incorrect, please let us know immediately. Simply comment on this tracking issue, and we will get the lists fixed: https://github.com/prometheus/governance/issues/6
4. Timeline: Voting begins on June 15th, 2026 and ends on 29th June, 2026 23:59.
Best regards,Arianna Vespri, Goutham Veeramachaneni, Joe Adams