On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 08:57 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 10:22:28PM -0500, Matt Mackall wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 08:55:04PM -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 09:52:54PM -0500, Matt Mackall wrote: > > > > The other part of the puzzle is including the wider Linux community. > > > > > > As I said; what's wrong with just using SPI membership? It's not like > > > it is remotely hard for kernel hackers to gain membership in SPI. And > > > somebody else takes care of the bureaucracy for you. > > > > Ahh, I didn't realize you were suggesting making -them- do the work > > instead of just stealing their model. I suppose that could work, > > provided no one finds being an SPI member objectionable and they'd > > provide us with their member list. > > I currently object to becoming an SPI member due to a number of personal > reasons at this point in time.
There's another alternative: and that's that we could use the voting mechanism of the LF itself. When the LF was formed, it inherited the individual affiliate members from the FSG (These members actually elect two of the board seats to the LF). We could simply use that pool as the electorate for the TAB ... of course, coming from the FSG it will be more user space centric. To be brutally frank, I couldn't give a toss about choosing the perfect representational system for the TAB election. In true Open Source fashion, all I really care about is that we have a mechanism whereby committed people can get their contributions accepted, plus we have a check to keep the TAB straight and make it report to its constituency. Also, being a kernel developer, I'm not unhappy with the kernel community bias. Various members of the kernel community worked very hard a few years ago to get OSDL to accept a list of demands and form the TAB, so the kernel community currently has the motivation necessary to keep it going. So, currently, the KS election system, while not perfect, serves its purpose adequately. The section of the TAB charter that deals with member elections is easy to modify. However, I really don't see us changing it until either someone comes up with a better system that's almost as simple to operate or we actually have motivated interest in joining the TAB from outside the Kernel community that necessitates moving away from KS as the electorate. James - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
