Re: Changing re-election periods

2007-03-05 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 06:12:27PM -0800, Josh Berkus wrote: > The current schedule of SPI elections for the Board is this: > 2007: 6 seats > 2008: 3 seats > 2009: 0 seats > 2010: 6 seats Err, what? Isn't it: 2007: 6 seats (Bdale, Branden, David, Ian, Jimmy, Joey) 2008: 0 seats - 2009:

Re: Changing re-election periods

2007-03-05 Thread David Graham
On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, Josh Berkus wrote: > All, > > We have a calendar correction to make. > > The current schedule of SPI elections for the Board is this: > > 2007: 6 seats > > 2008: 3 seats > > 2009: 0 seats > > 2010: 6 seats > > etc... > > I think you can see some problems with this skewed rotatio

Changing re-election periods

2007-03-05 Thread Josh Berkus
All, We have a calendar correction to make. The current schedule of SPI elections for the Board is this: 2007: 6 seats 2008: 3 seats 2009: 0 seats 2010: 6 seats etc... I think you can see some problems with this skewed rotation, the product of some missed/aborted elections in our past. I

Re: Draft resolution formalising Debian's Associated Project status

2007-03-05 Thread Josh Berkus
MJ, > SPI pledges to obey all OFTC decisions.  Please do the same for the > debian project. Frankly, I wouldn't vote to approve the OFTC wording the way it stands if they were applying to join today. It's too vague. However, since OFTC actually needs very little, if anything, from SPI on a mo

Re: Draft resolution formalising Debian's Associated Project status

2007-03-05 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 12:01:00AM +, MJ Ray wrote: > (Confusing statements by the current DPL about his authoritativity > don't help, although he's also promised to relate faithfully any > non-DPL decisions, so that isn't critical ATM.) I consider them different hats: - the DPL gets to make

Re: Draft resolution formalising Debian's Associated Project status

2007-03-05 Thread MJ Ray
Josh Berkus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The issue we're having with Debian is the requests by a couple of prominent > (or at least vocal) Debian community members that we monitor, and react to, > actions on debian-vote, as well as dealing with claims by Debian community > members that the DPL w

Re: Draft resolution formalising Debian's Associated Project status

2007-03-05 Thread Josh Berkus
AJ, Ian, > > In the case of other projects where we've nominated an individual as > > the `authoritative decisionmaker', that person was the leader of the > > project. > > And, uh, the "authoritative decisionmaker" for Debian is the duly elected > leader of the Debian project. More to the point,

Re: Draft resolution formalising Debian's Associated Project status

2007-03-05 Thread Theodore Tso
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 12:59:38PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Then that's something for Debian to resolve, up to and including > > appointing a new project representative. > > Err, boggle. Firstly, dealing with that that way in Debian might well > be too slow. And secondly, the representative

Re: Draft resolution formalising Debian's Associated Project status

2007-03-05 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 12:59:38PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Anthony Towns writes ("Re: Draft resolution formalising Debian's Associated > Project status"): > > On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 07:17:33PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > > > I'm afraid that this fails to clarify precisely the situation that w

Re: Draft resolution formalising Debian's Associated Project status

2007-03-05 Thread Ian Jackson
Anthony Towns writes ("Re: Draft resolution formalising Debian's Associated Project status"): > On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 07:17:33PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > > I'm afraid that this fails to clarify precisely the situation that was > > being disputed. What if the representative fails to honour so