On 01/29/2012 09:37 PM, Ralph Goers 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 (alone) as well, and fully agree with Ralph's arguments.
Concerning having to 'fire up the full secret ballot mechanism used for board',
I would think that not necessarily nor often needed. As I said earlier, if there
are no other candidates and the current Chair is willing to serve another term,
which could be determined by a simple and lazy consensus heads-up email on
private@, there need not be held any format vote as long as everybody is aware
of the fact.
Regards, Ate
Ralph
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