On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 01:13PM, Sergi Vladykin wrote: > I believe Chair doesn't need our approval to start such a discussion :) > Probably we should set Chair reelection date to make this work?
No one needs any approvals to start something around here, clearly ;) The point of this is to formalize the lazy fall-back instead of a hard action items. The keyword here is 'lazy' because this thing doesn't set a hard-date for the "reelection" nor oblige anyone to even make the reelection happen. I think this is one of those best engineering practices - "don't touch things if they work". So if the current Chair "works" well - we don't need to touch it just because we had set the reelection date. And as any good practice - it is quite daoistic. Cos > 2015-09-10 2:39 GMT+03:00 Roman Shaposhnik <[email protected]>: > > > Obviously I'm a big +1 on that proposal since I have seen it work > > very well. > > > > Thanks, > > Roman. > > > > On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 9:01 PM, Konstantin Boudnik <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Guys, > > > > > > I want to drop it on the list and see what are the thoughts the PMC. I > > think > > > it would be very beneficial for the members of this community if we > > institute > > > a policy to have regular rotations of the Chair. We do this in Bigtop > > and it > > > works real well for a couple of reasons: > > > - it provides an opportunity to anyone in the PMC to try this hat on > > and get > > > more involved in the inner-workings of the ASF and see how the board > > operates > > > - it guarantees that once you're a chair you aren't stuck holding the > > bag > > > forever and can pass it on if your time allocation changes > > > - such a policy makes the PMC very transparent > > > > > > And of course it doesn't mean that a new person _has_ to be the chair > > each > > > cycle. The same chair should remain if no one is nominated or gets the > > > majority of the votes. > > > > > > At Bigtop we passed a resolution to oblige the active chair to start the > > > [DISCUSS] thread at the end of his annual tenure and ask for > > nominations. The > > > active chair remains and no [VOTE] is needed if no nominations are made. > > > Pretty lazy and simple. > > > > > > If people aren't familiar with what's the PMC Chair and why all that > > fuzz, > > > please read on > > > https://www.apache.org/dev/pmc.html#chair > > > And I recommend everyone to take a look above PMC guide if you never > > seen it > > > before. > > > > > > Thoughts? > > > Cos > >
