Michael Gilbert <mgilb...@debian.org> writes: > On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 1:37 PM, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> We could combine both features, though: set a term length of two years, >> and then say that people can serve for two terms in succession but then >> have to leave the committee for at least one term. > 8 seems like it would be near ideal: turnover is dealt with only about > once per year, it is close to the average of the existing members terms > (7.385 years), and it's likely close the historical average (although I > haven't calculated that, would be interesting for someone to research). I don't think this achieves the goal of rotating more project members through the TC. In other words, matching the average of the past is, for me, a bug, not a feature: I think the TC turnover should be considerably higher than it has been, not because there's anything at all wrong with the people who have served in the past, but because I think this is a function that should take advantage of the perspectives of, and be accessible to, a larger spread of people within the project. That's something that I've been kicking around since the discussions about our last membership change, after getting a feel for the various constraints created by the current TC membership system. It felt like the project would benefit from the TC doing something a bit more outside the box. Of course, it remains to be seen how many people other than myself think this is a goal that we should be aiming towards. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87wqd9g1kw....@windlord.stanford.edu
