Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> writes: > On Monday, December 01, 2014 04:59:53 PM Colin Tuckley wrote: >> On 01/12/14 16:50, Scott Kitterman wrote: >> > As an amendment, I propose the transitional measure be removed. >> >> Why not support the amendment from Lucas instead which has more or less >> the same effect? > > It has the ~same effect right now, but behaves differently in the future. When > we vote, I think it would be a better choice if the transitional language > weren't there. I'd like to see all the options be as good as possible before > the vote. In the spirit of making things as good as possible before the vote, I'll mention an idea that was kicked around earlier, and seemed to meet with a fair amount of approval, just to see if people at large prefer it: We could simply remove the sub-clauses about tie-breaking in 2. There's no need for the situation ever to arise as long as we establish a custom (which need not be defined in the constitution) that the DPL always makes it clear that appointments to the TC happen in series. Then there would never be any simultaneous appointments, so we'd never need a tie-breaker. Even if a DPL forgets that, there will be an official announcement, and we could just decide (or the DPL could later declare) that the order the names appeared in the announcement was the order of appointment. It's not as though it's vitally important, and if people like the "age in the project" tie-breaker the DPL just needs to appoint people in that order and that gives us the same effect. We could perhaps replace part 2 of the proposals with something like: 2. Seniority in this context is a measure of how long a member has served in their current term on the committee: whoever was appointed first is considered to be the more senior. I'm not proposing this as an amendment yet, but if it meets with general approval, I will, and it it seems to upset anyone I'll just drop it. I'd personally prefer the simplicity, but I'm unwilling to make a fuss about it. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/ http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg, GERMANY
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