I am currently -1 for this change, but I do not yet have access to the full governance board discussion yet.
Basically, the reasoning for this change is not clear for me. Looking back in the history of the governance board, we are 4 active members making all the decisions. As far as I remember, Kohsuke did not participate in a decision in the last couple of years. So in practice we have 4 votes in our meetings, and if 2 of these votes are from one company this company can block any decision. They have not majority, but we have a stalemate which is a potential risk. So I would prefer to not change the current situation. It would even make sense to update the current rule so that no company can get 50% of the 4 elected seats. Then we do not need discuss if Kohsuke is affiliated with Cloudbees or not. If the reasoning for the change is, that we do not have enough people that want to help with the governance of the Jenkins project (no election for all positions of the officers and board members required) we should also rethink if the number of board members is too large? The number of active community members in Jenkins is getting smaller year by year (the number of new Jenkins features as well), so maybe it would make sense to reduce the number of seats as well? The number of board members should reflect the number of active community members as well. > The board needs more active participants to assist with the work of the > board. Allowing 1 more board member from CloudBees or any other company that > already has a member on the board will strengthen the board and its work to > serve the Jenkins project. Here it would help to elaborate, what these work items are? From my understanding and from our statement, the board is > The decision-making ability of the board is more symbolic and honorific So if there is too much work we should rethink if this work could be delegated to other roles in the Jenkins project. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to jenkinsci-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/9A147D91-4B25-4F75-A9E5-A8C67B4F6508%40gmail.com.
