Re: Question for Stefano: Length of the DPL term

2011-03-27 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On la, 2011-03-26 at 18:30 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 08:21:33AM +, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > For the DPL, if we haven't heard from them in, say, two months, then > > the secretary could investigate and figure out what's going on, and > > decide whether to start

Re: Question for Stefano: Length of the DPL term

2011-03-27 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 11:39:02PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > One way to improve the bootstrap time is to have people doing smaller > leadership things before being DPL, so that the bootstrapping happens > prior to the election, rather than in the weeks/months following. In > theory, that could

Re: Question for Stefano: Length of the DPL term

2011-03-26 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 08:21:33AM +, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > For the DPL, if we haven't heard from them in, say, two months, then > the secretary could investigate and figure out what's going on, and > decide whether to start a new election process or not. Leaving the decision to the secretar

Re: Question for Stefano: Length of the DPL term

2011-03-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 03:20:59PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: >On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 05:36:37PM +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: >> in your platform you wrote that you experienced that serving as DPL is >> a task with a rather long bootstrap time. You didn't wrote how long >> this exactly w

Re: Question for Stefano: Length of the DPL term

2011-03-21 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 00:20, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > Now my question: What do you think about changing the constitution to > > extend the length of the DPL term to, lets say, two years? > I thought about this quite a bit in the past months. I've found it to be > a surprisingly complex pro

Re: Question for Stefano: Length of the DPL term

2011-03-20 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On la, 2011-03-19 at 15:20 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > Something that might work is that at midterm the DPL has to explicitly > state whether they are willing to continue for another midterm or > not. Alternatively, we could apply to the DPL what I've suggested applying to all DDs: if you'r

Re: Question for Stefano: Length of the DPL term

2011-03-19 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 05:36:37PM +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: > in your platform you wrote that you experienced that serving as DPL is > a task with a rather long bootstrap time. You didn't wrote how long > this exactly was, but i guess something about 2-3 month. I'd say that is a reasonable

Question for Stefano: Length of the DPL term

2011-03-18 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi Stefano, in your platform you wrote that you experienced that serving as DPL is a task with a rather long bootstrap time. You didn't wrote how long this exactly was, but i guess something about 2-3 month. Given that the voting period (seeking for candidates, campaining and vote period itself) i