On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 10:48:56AM +0200, Mark Trompell wrote: > I would propose to replace Ken and Paul for now only, so that we don't > have to replace the whole council at once *every* turn. This will > provide some stability in our direction. > I think a term should be a year at least (debatable though).
if you don't want to replace everyone at each turn then the term should be at least twice as long as an election turn. so if elections are to be once a year then the term would need to be two years. now two are replaced, in a year another two (asuming that doniphon stays) however i think there should be an option to reelect someone who has been a council member before. this would open up the room for rotating the council seats among the active members even if we don't get new members. if reelection is not possible then we are forced to find new members which could cause issues if we are not successful with that. another approach could be to say that every year two need to be replaced, but it doesn't matter which two, it could be that 3 stay the same for a longer time and 2 get rotated. this would allow a relatively stable team but allow us to bring in new blood into the council anyways. in general though i think forcing a replacement is not really helpful. in our history it seems that the need for replacement came automatically anyways because council members become inactive. maybe it is more important to define what constitutes an active council member and make it easy to replace inactive ones as opposed to forcing people to end their term even if they are continuously active. greetings, martin. -- cooperative communication with sTeam - caudium, pike, roxen and unix services: debugging, programming, training, linux sysadmin, web development -- pike programmer working in china community.gotpike.org foresight developer (open-steam|caudium).org foresightlinux.org unix sysadmin iaeste.at realss.com Martin Bähr http://www.iaeste.at/~mbaehr/ is.schon.org _______________________________________________ Foresight-devel mailing list Foresight-devel@lists.rpath.org http://lists.rpath.org/mailman/listinfo/foresight-devel
