Re: [DRAFT] Maximum term for tech ctte members
On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 03:46:49PM +0000, Philip Hands wrote:
> Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> writes:
>
> > Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org> writes:
> >
> >> On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 11:33:10AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> >> [...]
> >>> 2. A member of the Technical Committee is said to be more senior
> >>> than another if they were appointed earlier, or were appointed
> >>> at the same time and have been a member of the Debian Project
> >>> longer. In the event that a member has been appointed more
> >>> than once, only the most recent appointment is relevant.
> >>
> >> I think it makes more sense to have someone who was previously a member
> >> of the TC have more seniority, before "age" within the project:
> >
> > I think since this is a tie-breaker situation which will presumably
> > rarely happen, it doesn't really matter much.
>
> How about:
>
> For the purpose of determining seniority, simultaneous appointments
> are deemed to have taken place in the order of names in the mail that
> announced their appointment.
>
> The TC can then decide how they're going to do the ordering at
> appointment time, and that's then clear to all -- no need to come up
> with lots of words that might still not give a distinct result.
That would work too, I suppose.
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