On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 09:44:43PM +0100, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > > This is still pending, and noted in BUGS. I agree this is as a > > potential problem, at least if you look at it from a paranoid angle. > > I find your suggested wording not immediate, though, and I wonder if > > a/ someone else has better suggestion, and b/ whether this is worth > > fixing. > > What about something along the lines of "At this time, the terms of > members who have been members for more than 54 months automatically > expire." ? I've proposed a solution to this shortly before your message. Can you look at it and follow-up if you're not happy with it and have an alternative proposal? > Another point though: > > 5. A Developer is not eligible to be (re)appointed to the Technical > > Committee if they have been a member within the previous 12 months. > > Provided that the expiration happens on January first, does this imply > that if A was expired on 01.01.2015, she becomes eligible again on > 01.01.2016? As I read the two new clauses, given someone the project > really wants on the TC, she can stay 5 years, break for a year and be > re-appointed, right? That is correct, yes. > All-in-all, I feel the change goes in the right direction, but I also > feel it only goes halfway through (probably the half we can collectively > agree on though). The two issues I'd like to see fixed on a longer term > are "quite long mandates" (although the fix helps here) I guess it does, yes. Of course it depends on your notion of "quite long", but ~5 years matches my intuitive notion of "long but not too long" terms in board-like settings. > and "imperfect representativity of the diversity of the project caused > by self- appointment", which I'd like to get fixed through some sort > of election through the project. Sorry, I digressed; let's keep that > for a later discussion. TBH I'm not sure how one could fix that with a hard rule either way, but if you've specific proposals I'm all ears :) But please let's avoid making perfect the enemy of the good (...aaaand once again I'm done with my daily dose of lame proverbs). Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . zack@upsilon.cc . . . . o . . . o . o Maître de conférences . . . . . http://upsilon.cc/zack . . . o . . . o o Former Debian Project Leader . . @zack on identi.ca . . o o o . . . o . « the first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club »
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