Hi, Am Montag, den 29.08.2011, 10:17 +0200 schrieb Stefano Zacchiroli: > At present, I don't have any bright idea on how to implement the "not > socially awkward" part preserving full transparency. A possibility might > be to allow a given number of DDs to request in private a mid-term > election to the secretary. But that clearly trades-off transparency for > social un-awkward-ness. IMHO it would match the spirit of the current > Constitution provision that DPL votes are secret, but YMMV. It would > also possibly increase the level of trust we put in the Secretary. Obviously, it is not a problem for a DPL to call for a re-election, as in „I’d be willing to serve another year, but I want to reaffirm that I have the projects backing“. So the only problem is allowing the DD body to call for an election. How about reversing the action: By default, there is an election, unless a reasonable, well-defined number of DD publicly state that they see no need for a re-election. Either, there are people willing to do that. Then not all is bad with the current DPL and it is ok to assume that the project is happy with the current DPL. Stating support for the current DPL is not socially awkward (after all, we are carrying him on chairs occasionally). Or, nobody stands up. Not doing something is not totally socially awkward, but yet a clear vote that the project might be happier with another election. A few close, personal friends might want to state their support in order to not burden their personal relationship, hence the number required should be sufficiently higher to allow them to do so. I think this works well unless we have the case of a strongly polarizing DPL, with a large number of supporters and possibly more opponents. But I don’t think this is a real issue: The DPL was elected, and it is normal in a democracy that you cannot change your mind about your votes during a regular term. In the worst case, a GR can cause an immediate re-election (If I read the constitution correctly). Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer nomeata@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
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