[I know I'm a little late to this party, which you can take as an indication that I've not managed to keep on top of my mail recently, and have probably missed your vital gem of wisdom elsewhere in the thread. TBH, I'd rather discuss this in a BoF, so I'll probably continue to fail to keep up with the thread] On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 10:59:43 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli <leader@debian.org> wrote: ... > What I've failed to see thus far in this thread are alternative > proposals. How could we choose the members of the herb team in a > transparent manner? Would a call for volunteers on a public mailing list > be enough? Has it been tried in the past? With which results? While chatting in the hacklab just now, I came up with: Select people from the keying on the basis of being at the most extreme edges of the WoT (this should give diversity) Ask each of those people in order of extremity to nominate someone else that they would trust to be in charge of allocating sponsorship (this should give reasonable well connected, but still divers people) Ask the nominees if they're willing to be on the team. Rinse and repeat until you get an appropriate number of nominees (you'd probably want to do this using the WoT based on some past date, to avoid people gaming the system) I'm sure that this could be improved on, but it's at least transparent. I also don't mind (and might prefer) being a non-voting chairman type role if that's needed/useful -- I never apply for travel sponsorship for DebConf, and will likely decide that I should try working instead if I get to the point where I _ought_ to ask. ;-) Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] http://www.hands.com/ |-| HANDS.COM Ltd. http://www.uk.debian.org/ |(| 10 Onslow Gardens, South Woodford, London E18 1NE ENGLAND
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