On Feb 22, 2013, at 9:29 PM, Chip Childers <chip.child...@sungard.com> 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 chair. > > Currently, our bylaws [1] state that we would use the Single > Transferable Vote method for this selection (see section 2.4.5). In the > thread on the private list, our mentors have suggested that we may want > to reconsider this position. > > I'll admit that we have it in our bylaws, purely because I started with > the Hadoop project's document as a starting point for our own. I > believe that the Hadoop folks probably have a very good reason for this > approach, but perhaps it's not right for our community. > > I'm proposing the following change: > > CURRENT: > > 2.4.5. If the current chair of the PMC resigns, the PMC votes to > recommend a new chair using Single Transferable Vote (STV) voting. > See http://wiki.apache.org/general/BoardVoting for specifics. The > decision must be ratified by the Apache board. > > PROPOSED: > > 2.4.5. If the current chair of the PMC resigns, the PMC votes to > recommend a new chair using a lazy 2/3 majority voting method. > This vote would be held on the cloudstack-dev mail list, after a > discussion is held on the cloudstack-private list to nominate a > candidate for the role. The decision must be ratified by the Apache > board. > 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 ? > This is the discussion thread to see if people have any opinions. If we > don't have any big concerns, I'll start a new VOTE thread to change the > bylaws (using the rules in section 3.4.9 of the bylaws themselves). > > Thoughts? > > -chip > > [1] https://cwiki.apache.org/CLOUDSTACK/apache-cloudstack-project-bylaws.html
