On Friday 25 July 2008 17:30, Emmet Hikory wrote: > Cody A.W. Somerville wrote: > > Currently, the MOTU community feels that it is beneficial to delegate > > certain responsibilities and permissions to a subset of trusted > > individuals; for example the MOTU Release Team and Universe Stable > > Release Update Team. Since these bodies represent and act on behalf of > > MOTU-at-large, it is argued that for these leadership teams to be > > legitimate that they must accurately reflect the MOTU via an electoral > > process. Others feel alternative solutions would instead be optimal. > > Regardless, over the last few releases, the methodology used to populate > > these teams has been inconsistent. It is desired that a standard > > practice/policy be adopted. > > This topic was again discussed at the 25th July MOTU Meeting. > Please find below a summary of one of the proposed mechanisms by which > team members might be selected. > > For each of the MOTU-SRU and MOTU Release teams, a maximum size (e.g. > 5 or 7) is selected. Note that the selected time values are > arbitrary, and may be adjusted if required. > > Any MOTU with interest in joining a key team may apply to me a member > of that team by sending mail to [email protected] > indicating their desire to join the team, and outlining their > qualifications to be on the team. > > This is followed by a discussion period of one week where any MOTU is > able to ask questions about the application. If during this period, > any MOTU strongly disagrees that the candidate is qualified to join > the team, the candidate is rejected, and must wait at least two months > to reapply. > > If the acceptance of a candidate would push the team oversize, a > multicandidate election is held, with a number of winners equal to the > maximum size of the team selected from the current members and any new > applications. This election may be delayed if there are multiple open > applications at one time (apologies to those who may have to wait to > join a team in this instance). > > Any current member may resign at any time, if they are no longer > active in the team. Any MOTU may call for resignation of a team > member if they are perceived as inactive or unsuitable in some way. > In the case where a resignation is requested, there is a two week > period of discussion. If the request has not been withdrawn and the > member has not resigned at the end of the discussion period, the issue > will be resolved by MOTU Council using the dispute resolution process. > > Please note that if this model is selected, there will be a need > to determine a voting system to handle the case where there are too > many applicants. > I think this is an interesting approach. A few questions:
Is there a maximum term before one must stand for election again or is it until one quits/some MOTU asks to have you out? Is there some minimum before one can re-apply if one is not accepted (I see DoS potential in the approach without such a rule)? Scott K -- Ubuntu-motu mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu
