On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 9:37 PM, Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com> wrote: > > 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
+1 for option 2 and what Ralph said > > Ralph > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > -- http://www.grobmeier.de https://www.timeandbill.de --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
