On Jan 29, 2012, at 12:16 PM, Benson Margulies wrote: > On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Alan D. Cabrera <l...@toolazydogs.com> wrote: >> >> On Jan 29, 2012, at 6:18 AM, Ate Douma wrote: >> >>> >>> FTR: as should be clear from my above response, I disagree with the topic >>> of this discussion thread. This should be about Regular (re)election of the >>> PMC Chair. Regular rotation IMO would be unwise and undesirable. >> >> Good point. I share the same opinion. > > Let me try to state some alternatives: > > 1) No particular policy: The PMC has no special policy about > recommending a new chair to the board. It will happen if the chair > resigns, or if the PMC as a whole reaches a consensus on a change. > > 2) Fixed election schedule: On some schedule (e.g. annually), > nominations are opened, including potentially the current chair, and a > vote takes place. (I'd hate to have to fire up the full secret ballot > mechanism used for board members.) Whomever wins is recommended to the > board. > > 3) Rotation policy: On some schedule, the PMC chooses a new chair to > recommend to the board 'whether it needs one or not.' This could be > viewed as 'term limits'. > > If we don't reach a consensus on something else, we stick with the > current state of affairs, which is, I claim, (1). > > We could adopt both (2) and (3): purely for example, we could have an > annual election, but a 5-year maximum on continuous service.
My preference is option 2 alone. I don't see the point of "term limits" as I believe that will take care of itself. I'm not in favor of 1 because it always seems to end up feeling like it is personal when people bring up rotating the chair - i.e. isn't the current chair doing a good enough job, the current chair should say they want to resign first, etc., rather than it just being time to allow the PMC to reevaluate itself Ralph --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
