Re: Discuss changing the project bylaws for the PMC Chair voting process

2013-03-02 Thread Chip Childers
On Mar 2, 2013, at 7:40 AM, Brett Porter wrote: > > On 02/03/2013, at 2:44 AM, Chip Childers wrote: > >> >> OK - I'm going to draft this up and start a vote now. > > I don't want to derail the voting process, but would like to clarify this > part: > > --- > recommend a new chair through consens

Re: Discuss changing the project bylaws for the PMC Chair voting process

2013-03-02 Thread Brett Porter
On 02/03/2013, at 2:44 AM, Chip Childers wrote: > > OK - I'm going to draft this up and start a vote now. I don't want to derail the voting process, but would like to clarify this part: --- recommend a new chair through consensus via a lazy 2/3 majority voting method. In the case that con

Re: Discuss changing the project bylaws for the PMC Chair voting process

2013-03-01 Thread Chip Childers
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 05:15:16PM -0500, David Nalley wrote: > On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Chip Childers > wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 12:36:36PM -0500, David Nalley wrote: > >> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Chip Childers > >> > I'd also point out, as one of our mentors did in the

Re: Discuss changing the project bylaws for the PMC Chair voting process

2013-02-27 Thread David Nalley
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Chip Childers wrote: > On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 12:36:36PM -0500, David Nalley wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Chip Childers >> > I'd also point out, as one of our mentors did in the private list >> > discussion, that the chair role is largely an adminis

Re: Discuss changing the project bylaws for the PMC Chair voting process

2013-02-27 Thread Chip Childers
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 12:36:36PM -0500, David Nalley wrote: > On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Chip Childers > > I'd also point out, as one of our mentors did in the private list > > discussion, that the chair role is largely an administrative one. > > > > And while we're at it, the private disc

Re: Discuss changing the project bylaws for the PMC Chair voting process

2013-02-25 Thread Joe Brockmeier
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013, at 10:58 AM, Chip Childers wrote: > And while we're at it, the private discussion brought up the idea of > re-introducing a rotation (or at least a "term"), which would allow > for a regular opportunity to recommend a change to the board. I'm not > sure that it's required, g

Re: Discuss changing the project bylaws for the PMC Chair voting process

2013-02-25 Thread David Nalley
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Chip Childers wrote: > On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 04:23:41PM -0500, David Nalley wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 3:29 PM, Chip Childers >> wrote: >> > Hi all, >> > >> > Continuing the graduation discussion (you're going to see plenty of >> > threads like this as w

Re: Discuss changing the project bylaws for the PMC Chair voting process

2013-02-25 Thread Chip Childers
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 04:23:41PM -0500, David Nalley wrote: > On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 3:29 PM, Chip Childers > wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Continuing the graduation discussion (you're going to see plenty of > > threads like this as we head down the road), the PPMC had a discussion > > around how

Re: Discuss changing the project bylaws for the PMC Chair voting process

2013-02-25 Thread Chip Childers
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 09:39:14PM +0100, Sebastien Goasguen wrote: > > On Feb 22, 2013, at 9:29 PM, Chip Childers wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > Continuing the graduation discussion (you're going to see plenty of > > threads like this as we head down the road), the PPMC had a discussion > > arou

Re: Discuss changing the project bylaws for the PMC Chair voting process

2013-02-22 Thread David Nalley
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 3:29 PM, Chip Childers wrote: > Hi all, > > Continuing the graduation discussion (you're going to see plenty of > threads like this as we head down the road), the PPMC had a discussion > around how to best select the name we would recommend to the ASF board > to be our PMC

Re: Discuss changing the project bylaws for the PMC Chair voting process

2013-02-22 Thread Chip Childers
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 09:39:14PM +0100, Sebastien Goasguen wrote: > The PMC would only put one candidate forward ? > This would make the vote on the dev list more of a ratification than a vote. > > Should the PMC put multiple candidates forward ? Open to suggestions on this, but I was assuming

Re: Discuss changing the project bylaws for the PMC Chair voting process

2013-02-22 Thread Sebastien Goasguen
On Feb 22, 2013, at 9:29 PM, Chip Childers wrote: > Hi all, > > Continuing the graduation discussion (you're going to see plenty of > threads like this as we head down the road), the PPMC had a discussion > around how to best select the name we would recommend to the ASF board > to be our PMC c