On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Alan D. Cabrera <l...@toolazydogs.com> wrote: > > On Jan 29, 2012, at 11:24 AM, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: > >> On 1/29/2012 12:11 AM, Alan D. Cabrera wrote: >>> >>> I intend to nominate Noel J. Bergman but would like to see the community >>> come to a consensus about the rotation of the chair. (Dibs on Noel) :) >> >> If this goes to a nominations and a ballot, isn't that implicit that >> we've agreed to rotate the chair? > > I would rather have a community discussion, consensus and explicit vote about > the PMC chair rotation and its working parameters on this list before we move > on to some implicit agreement that began from a, imnsho, premature call for > nominations on a private list. > >> I general, because of the moving parts in incubator, I'd prefer we >> didn't try to rotate annually, but perhaps ever 2 or 3 years, if the >> elected chairs are willing to put up and commit for that long. > > That's a good point that I hadn't considered. Maybe 2-3 years is a good idea.
The community does not have to have a formal rotation policy, though it could. There's nothing wrong or unusual about simply deciding that it's time for a change without trying to predict the future of when it will next be time for a change. The term 'premature' seems strange to me given that it was weeks ago that Niclas' thread started this discussion. It seems to me that if you think that, going forward, the community should have a rotation policy, you should start another thread proposing such a policy,and see what happens. Meanwhile, this thread requests nominations. So far, I'm nonplussed to note, I'm the only nominee. I'm going to nominate Noel, and it would be good to see some others step forward or get pushed. There's no policy that requires a consensus decision to open nominations for a new chair. In fact, since the eventual decision is the board's, the effect of a veto on a vote is an interesting question. The board would get a report to the effect that the community did not reach a consensus to change the chair. I wouldn't presume to predict the board's reaction. > > > Regards, > Alan > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
