On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, Anthony Towns wrote: > And without both those things, even if it improves now, it will > stagnate again in future.
Since the problem is stagnation, what about trying to address that directly? I suggest assigning each open issue to a CTTE member in turn who acts as the chair for that issue (with skipping if the member should recuse themselves because they are directly involved.) [This can be tracked using the owner field in the BTS.] If an issue itself isn't put to a vote within a month or a week of the last message on the issue (whichever is longer), the person assigned to the issue is assumed to be inactive or too busy to serve, and is removed from the CTTE, and a new member is appointed in their place. The issue is assigned to the next unassigned member which resets the last message timer, and everything continues. The CTTE chair is responsible for the assignment of members to issues, and also acts as a issue chair in turn; the failure to assign a member to an issue within a suitable timeframe (one week?) is taken as inactivity as well, and the chair is removed, and an immediate vote taken to select a new one. The only question is for people who are validly on VAC, but presumably someone on VAC should arrange for an active CTTE member to handle issues while they are away. [The times above are just first stabs; I'm not attached to them by any means.] Don Armstrong -- Mozart tells us what it's like to be human, Beethoven tells us what it's like to be Beethoven, and Bach tells us what it's like to be the universe. -- Douglas Adams http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
