Henri Yandell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 16/03/2006 08:14:08: > My proposal is that we create a file in SVN in which PMC members can list
> themselves as being active. After 1 month, failure to appear in that list > will result in removal from the PMC. If it goes well we could consider > doing it periodically, or just when it feels like the numbers are getting > out of sync again. My thought is this... 1/ we have a process for decision making - email votes. 1a/ we don't have a process for managing your file, and anyway it would still require mail to be involved. 2/ we should use what works 3/ we know we're lazy so lets factor that in. What I think might be a better solution would be that we periodically vote to de-select named pmc members. The votes are tallied per lazy-consensus. Scenarios are... Danny proposes to de-select Robert (just an example mate, I'd never do that:-). a)No votes cast. Robert goes. b)Some people vote +1 but Robert votes -1. He gets to stay. c)Robert doesn't vote but someone else knows why he's temporarily unable to contribute so votes -1, He stays. Pros are: This is safe from the POV that it doesn't strip people of PMC membership unless no-one cares enough to do anything. It achieves its goal with minimum effort on the part of the active PMC members. The mail thread recording the decision is archived in the same place and the same manner as all the other decisions we take. The process which resulted in their election to the PMC is (more or less) followed in reverse. Cons are: It is open to abuse, there is no restriction on the people who can be proposed or the frequency that votes can be called. This would be mitigated by the fact that many of us are not as daft as we look. It's legitimacy could be challenged unless it was documented somewhere. Then again if someone was especially belligerent they could challenge anything I suppose, and I guess that the issue could be escalated to the board. d. ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
