Re: Constitutional amendment: reduce the length of DPL election process
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 12:13:05AM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > While we're at it, I've long felt that a one-year DPL term is just too
> > short (because a DPL needs to spend a few months to get worked in, and
> > can't do all that much when the next election is about to turn up for
> > fear of being accused to be campaigning, often leaving only slightly
> > over half a year or so of time for real work to be done). If more people
> > feel like it, I'll draft up an amendment that turns it into a two-year
> > term, or so.
> Please formulate a GR and I'll second it immediately. 18-24 months seems
> sensible, annual elections are a waste of everyone's time.
I know, we should set the DPL term to be equal to the release cycle; that
way the DPL will be suitably encouraged to make sure the release never
stalls out ;)
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