Hello world, Would anyone else be supportive of a proposal to set a term for tech ctte membership?
The current tech ctte members were appointed: Ian: May/Dec 1998 (15 years, 5 months) [0] Bdale: Apr 2001 (13 years, 1 month) [1] Andreas: Jan 2006 (8 years, 4 months) [2] Steve: Jan 2006 (8 years, 4 months) [2] Russ: Jan 2009 (5 years, 4 months) [3] Don: Jan 2009 (5 years, 4 months) [3] Colin: Aug 2011 (2 years, 9 months) [4] Keith: Nov 2013 (6 months) [5] I think set terms, with no term limits would make sense (ie, you're appointed to the ctte, you stay on it for X years, then you either say "thanks, but enough's enough" or "that was fun, I'd like to keep doing it" and the ctte and DPL considers whether to reappoint you in the usual fashion. Personally, I think 3 or 4 year terms ought to be long enough, but that would mean kicking everyone but Colin and Keith off the ctte immediately. Terms of 6-8 years would leave half the current ctte around to reconstitute the ctte. With a term of 16 years (which no member has exceeded yet), a new member would have to be voted on once every two years on average to maintain a full 8-member ctte. I think it'd be healthy if there was a rule something like "an ex-member may not be reappointed to the committee unless someone else has been appointed to the ctte since s/he was last a member". That would mean you couldn'y have "Alice, Bob, Carol, Dave" as the tech ctte with an agreement that they'll just reappoint each other anytime their term expires; they'd have to appoint someone from outside the group (Emma, say) first. Call it an anti-Cabal measure. I'm not sure there's a simple and obvious way to phrase such a measure though, so maybe it's too hard. At present, the only way for someone to leave the tech ctte is for them to disappear, resign, or be hounded out by either their fellow ctte members or a GR. IMO, it would be nice if there was a way out of the ctte that had more of a feeling of winning / leaving at the top of the game than those. YMMV. I think I'd rather second a proposal along these lines than actually propose it... Cheers, aj [0] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/1998/05/msg01546.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-announce/1998/msg00047.html [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2001/04/msg00025.html [2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2006/01/msg00013.html [3] https://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2009/01/msg00053.html [4] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2011/08/msg00004.html [5] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2013/11/msg00009.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
