On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 09:57:15AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:48:28 +1100, Anthony Towns > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > 3. When there are 8 members, the Project Leader may appoint any > > Developer to the Technical Committee replacing the longest > > serving current member, provided there have not already been 2 > > or more appointments to the Technical Committee during the > > current Leader's term. > > This is a bad idea. The length of term of service is a bad > indicator of utility of the member to Debian. Consider this scenario: > what if the longest serving members are the most active members of the > team, and the newer members being mostly MIA, you have just degraded > the tech ctte's utility. > > The grounds for removing people should be whether they are > present at all (which is the criteria used when we last shed people > from the ctte), or some measure of the quality of contribution. > > Most of the arguments posited against term limits apply here; > because this is just term limits in disguise (with a term limit of 4 > years).
AJ explicitely commented that it would be possible for the DPL to remove/reappoint somebody at one go, essentially making them the youngest standing member on the TC and recognizing their utility. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
