On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 10:52:12 +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > > > (Just a note - my S2 boundary isn't really arbitrary, it's basically a > > > function of the quorum.) > > (Point taken but it's still a deliberate decision to say > > count($members_of_soc_ctte)=round(Q).) > (I was just correcting the adjective used - "arbitrary" isn't the same as > "deliberate" :) (Debian is a great place for learning for me ;-)) > > I guess at the end the size of the committee should: > > * depend on its goals and tasks > > * allow the group to work as a _group_ > > > > (The other question is of course what happens if there are not enough > > candidates/winners. Maybe an (equally arbitrary) minimum size for a > > second round could be defined?) > I've discussed in the previous thread why I thought 1000->16 or 2000->23 > were decent; but that was more in light of an upper limit, rather than a > lower limit. Only when I started writing the exact rule into the > constitution text did I realize that there lower limit needs to be > thought about :) As long as we discover this issue in time ... :-) > If there is a serious doubt whether we would be able to elect that many > people in less than two rounds of elections (a second round would be > bearable; a third would be a real bother) Agreed. > then I would have to be leaning > towards either: > * Allowing a variable number of members, to a point. I was originally > thinking that a fixed size needs to be set in order to have a clear > understanding of what the membership in the ctte means; also adding > variability adds more nuance into the constitution definition so it's > harder to write. > * Or cutting the fixed size further down, but that sounds like a workaround. I too think the first possibility is better; and I think adding a minimum size shouldn't make the definition too complicated. Cheers, gregor -- .''`. http://info.comodo.priv.at/ | gpg key ID: 0x00F3CFE4 : :' : debian: the universal operating system - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' member of https://www.vibe.at/ | how to reply: http://got.to/quote/ `- NP: Die Tontauben: jonny
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