Re: Technical committee resolution
On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:06:07 +1000, Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> said:
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 09:12:54AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> Redoing the new blood thing once again is unlikely to have much of an
>> effect, really. I think we need to find some of the root causes of
>> the malaise that affects this institution, and fix that, rather than
>> rampaging around rearranging things randomly like a bull in a china
>> shop.
> What do you believe these "root causes" are?
I do not presume to be omniscient. But I believe lack of time,
which is reflected in lack of contribution to the debate on a topic,
and, even worse, lack of participation in the voting effort, is
definitely a root cause, and with associated indicators.
> Why do you think that structural to increase both external
> accountability will have no positivie effect?
I think this is a very poor implementation of an oversight.
You are restricting the ability of the DPL to only deal with the
oldest, rather than the worst perdorming, ctte members; and provide
little incentive to hit the ground running for new folks.
Under the original proposal, the DPL can either ratify, or
replace, _only_ the two oldest members; instead of the ability to
replace any missing member. I think that is ill advised.
> Why do you think that turnover within the committee, and the
> flexibility that brings both in regards to any personality disputes
> there may be, or any ingrained bad practices there may be, will have
> no positive effect?
Churn is not flexibility. Churn is churn.
> Given introducing new blood has already had positive effect, why do
> you believe it is unlikely more new blood will have any significant
> positive effect?
Actually, I think removing inactive members has had more
positive effect than the new blood, really, and the data is not present
to disambiguate these two theseses,
So yes, I reject the presentation of the new blood thesis as fact.
> Why do you think having two new members a year appointed by the DPL is
> "rampaging around like a bull in a china shop"?
Because there is no rhyme or reason on how the people being
replaced are selected. I don't think tying the DPL's hands by
providing a "get out of jail card" (or is the new fangled 'Survivor'
lingo "safety card"?) helps matters any.
manoj
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