Re: [DRAFT #2] Maximum term for tech ctte members

2014-11-19 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 19/11/14 at 22:31 -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 01:59:33PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > On 19/11/14 at 12:25 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 11:37:25AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > > I fear that, by reducing the average 'age' from

Re: [DRAFT] Maximum term for tech ctte members

2014-11-19 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Anthony Towns: > Technical Committee members are encouraged to serve for a term of > between three and six years. > What, you seriously want to not increase the amount of Legalese in our policy? The shame. :-P > and six years as an upper bound since it gives a bit > more flexibility than f

Re: [DRAFT #2] Maximum term for tech ctte members

2014-11-19 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 01:59:33PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 19/11/14 at 12:25 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 11:37:25AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > I fear that, by reducing the average 'age' from 7.8 years to ~2 years, > > > we are going too far. I woul

Re: increasing maximum ctte size

2014-11-19 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 11:18:57PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > Even if it were as ready, I wonder if it wouldn't be better to have a > separate GR. Voting once instead of twice is nice for everyone, but > conflating two separate decisions in a single GR has been proven to be > unwise in t

Re: [DRAFT #2] Maximum term for tech ctte members

2014-11-19 Thread David Weinehall
On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 10:18:36PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 19/11/14 at 19:13 +, Anthony Towns wrote: > > Russ's reaction to this was that it would be very hard not to > > automatically reappoint a current member: > > > > The social pressures here don't work very well. In general,

Re: [DRAFT] Maximum term for tech ctte members

2014-11-19 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 10:09:24PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > I think that the "2-R" behaviour is more desirable, as it avoids 2 years > without replacements in 2017 and 2018. Note that this isn't about the > "2-R" rule as we could have the same behaviour by keeping the "2" rule > and simply dr

Re: [DRAFT #2] Maximum term for tech ctte members

2014-11-19 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 19/11/14 at 19:13 +, Anthony Towns wrote: > Russ's reaction to this was that it would be very hard not to > automatically reappoint a current member: > > The social pressures here don't work very well. In general, any > approach that has the existing committee decide whether to retain

Re: [DRAFT] Maximum term for tech ctte members

2014-11-19 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 19/11/14 at 19:21 +, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 11:55:28AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > That said, I now am convinced that "2" (without "salvaging" by expiries > > of non-senior members) is a better model than "2-R". I've pondered your > > arguments below, but I d

Re: Some stats on gr_initcoupling

2014-11-19 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 03:20:21PM +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 10:51:01AM +0100, J??r??my Bobbio wrote: > > To start, there were 483 voters on 1006 voting developers. More than > > half didn't vote. Because the nominative tally sheet? Plain business? So > > fed up tha

Re: [DRAFT] Maximum term for tech ctte members

2014-11-19 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 11:55:28AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > That said, I now am convinced that "2" (without "salvaging" by expiries > of non-senior members) is a better model than "2-R". I've pondered your > arguments below, but I don't find them convincing. Specifically, Note that with

Re: Re: [DRAFT #2] Maximum term for tech ctte members

2014-11-19 Thread Bdale Garbee
An easy way to resolve the question about the "mandatory vacation period" would be to just have both variants available when this goes to GR? In other words, let the project decide whether that seems prudent. For the record, as the now-longest-serving member of the TC, I'll be the first person to

Re: [DRAFT #2] Maximum term for tech ctte members

2014-11-19 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 11:37:25AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > First, some data. The 'age' of each member of the TC (not excluding Russ and > Colin) is: > aba 2005-12-27 <8764pbxd9k@glaurung.internal.golden-gryphon.com>, 8.9y > bdale 2001-04-17 <20010417195420.i5...@visi.net>, ~13.6y > cjwat

Re: Some stats on gr_initcoupling

2014-11-19 Thread Niels Thykier
> On 19/11/14 at 15:20 +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: >> [...] > > If someone is interested in doing that, it should be fairly easy to > extract some metrics from UDD (date of last upload for each login, > number of uploads over the last 12 months for each login, etc.), and > then combine that w

Re: [DRAFT #2] Maximum term for tech ctte members

2014-11-19 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 06:31:31PM +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Stefano Zacchiroli , 2014-11-18, 21:49: > >-5. If the Technical Committee and the Project Leader agree they may > >+5. A Developer is not eligible to be (re)appointed to the Technical > >+ Committee if they have been a me

Re: [DRAFT #2] Maximum term for tech ctte members

2014-11-19 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Stefano Zacchiroli , 2014-11-18, 21:49: -5. If the Technical Committee and the Project Leader agree they may +5. A Developer is not eligible to be (re)appointed to the Technical + Committee if they have been a member within the previous 12 months. +6. If the Technical Committe

Re: [DRAFT] Maximum term for tech ctte members

2014-11-19 Thread Philip Hands
Stefano Zacchiroli writes: ... >> The '2-R' schema could even result in an internal TC discussion: "OK, >> the Project wants us to change two members. Are there people that feel >> like resigning now? Or should we just fallback to the default of expiring >> the two most senior members?" >> I thin

Re: [DRAFT] Maximum term for tech ctte members

2014-11-19 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 01:20:46PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > This is true only if you use the number of members as the measure for > the "strength" of the TC. But if instead, you consider the sum of the > experience of all members, more turnover due to resignations at a given > point will have

Re: Some stats on gr_initcoupling

2014-11-19 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Thanks, Le 19/11/2014 14:16, Alberto Garcia a écrit : > Some more data on turnout, if I didn't get anything wrong (there's a > couple of numbers I couldn't find in vote.debian.org). > > The columns are > Valid votes / No. of developers / Turnout / Description > > 482 / 908 = 53.08% General Res

Re: Some stats on gr_initcoupling

2014-11-19 Thread Alberto Garcia
Some more data on turnout, if I didn't get anything wrong (there's a couple of numbers I couldn't find in vote.debian.org). The columns are Valid votes / No. of developers / Turnout / Description 86 / 357 = 24.08% Constitution 208 / 347 = 59.94% Leader Elections 1999 107 / 497 = 21.52% Log

Re: Some stats on gr_initcoupling

2014-11-19 Thread Enrico Zini
On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 07:54:47PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 7:31 PM, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > > > As far as I know Debian does not have a routinely executed exit procedure > > where inactive DD's are being removed from the set. So looking at the > > relation between voters

Re: [DRAFT #2] Maximum term for tech ctte members

2014-11-19 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 19/11/14 at 12:25 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 11:37:25AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > I fear that, by reducing the average 'age' from 7.8 years to ~2 years, > > we are going too far. I would like to make it easier, for some members, > > to stay members of the T

Re: [DRAFT] Maximum term for tech ctte members

2014-11-19 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 19/11/14 at 11:55 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 10:13:45AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > Now, let's assume that I'm a member of the TC, not among the two most > > senior members, and that I feel a bit exhausted about that, not really > > motivated, and not really

Re: Some stats on gr_initcoupling

2014-11-19 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 7:31 PM, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > As far as I know Debian does not have a routinely executed exit procedure > where inactive DD's are being removed from the set. So looking at the > relation between voters and eligible voters doesn't lend itself to > interpretation about th

Re: Some stats on gr_initcoupling

2014-11-19 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 19/11/14 at 15:20 +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 10:51:01AM +0100, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: > > To start, there were 483 voters on 1006 voting developers. More than > > half didn't vote. Because the nominative tally sheet? Plain business? So > > fed up that it doesn't mat

Re: Some stats on gr_initcoupling

2014-11-19 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Wed, November 19, 2014 10:51, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: > To start, there were 483 voters on 1006 voting developers. More than > half didn't vote. Because the nominative tally sheet? Plain business? So > fed up that it doesn't matter anymore? As far as I know Debian does not have a routinely execute

Re: [DRAFT #2] Maximum term for tech ctte members

2014-11-19 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 11:37:25AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 18/11/14 at 21:49 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > +5. A Developer is not eligible to be (re)appointed to the Technical > > + Committee if they have been a member within the previous 12 months. > > Even if the possi

Re: [DRAFT] Maximum term for tech ctte members

2014-11-19 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 10:13:45AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > (Elaborating on the context a bit given the discussion spread over some > time -- two options have been proposed: > - expire the 2 most senior members > - expire the 2-R most senior members, with R the number of resignations > over

Re: Some stats on gr_initcoupling

2014-11-19 Thread Alberto Garcia
On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 10:51:01AM +0100, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: > To start, there were 483 voters on 1006 voting developers. More > than half didn't vote. Because the nominative tally sheet? Plain > business? So fed up that it doesn't matter anymore? If I got the data right from https://www.debian

Re: [DRAFT #2] Maximum term for tech ctte members

2014-11-19 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi, First, some data. The 'age' of each member of the TC (not excluding Russ and Colin) is: aba 2005-12-27 <8764pbxd9k@glaurung.internal.golden-gryphon.com>, 8.9y bdale 2001-04-17 <20010417195420.i5...@visi.net>, ~13.6y cjwatson 2011-08-24 <20110824160257.ga30...@upsilon.cc>, 3.2y don 2009-01-

Re: Some stats on gr_initcoupling

2014-11-19 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 10:51:01AM +0100, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: > To start, there were 483 voters on 1006 voting developers. More than > half didn't vote. Because the nominative tally sheet? Plain business? So > fed up that it doesn't matter anymore? I have a feeling which isn't backed by anything t

Some stats on gr_initcoupling

2014-11-19 Thread Jérémy Bobbio
Hi! I've been looking at the tally sheet for gr_initcoupling to try to get a bit more understanding of the lines in the project. I'm not sure I've managed to achieve that, but I thought I could share some stats anyway. To start, there were 483 voters on 1006 voting developers. More than half didn

Re: [DRAFT] Maximum term for tech ctte members

2014-11-19 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 19/11/14 at 10:13 +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > - The main change wrt the original text by Anthony is that the provision > > of not expiring senior members if less-senior ones have resigned is > > gone. In its stead, there is a provision that inhibits expiries from > > reducing the CTTE

Re: [DRAFT] Maximum term for tech ctte members

2014-11-19 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le mercredi, 19 novembre 2014, 10.13:45 Lucas Nussbaum a écrit : > The '2-R' schema could even result in an internal TC discussion: "OK, > the Project wants us to change two members. Are there people that feel > like resigning now? Or should we just fallback to the default of > expiring the two mos

Re: [DRAFT] Maximum term for tech ctte members

2014-11-19 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 18/11/14 at 11:33 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > Here is a draft GR text which builds on Anthony's work and implements > some of the aspects discussed in this thread. See below for > comments/rationales and the attachment for a wdiff. > >