On 30 May 2014 19:37, Anthony Towns <a...@erisian.com.au> wrote: > I might have another go at seeing if I can word it for rolling twelve > months, to see if that's workable.
Okay, so I gave it a go, and came up with: - A Technical Committee member's term will end upon resignation, removal or expiry. - A Technical Committee member may resign by stating such in public email to the committee discussion list. - If the Technical Committee and the Project Leader agree they may remove or replace an existing member of the Technical Committee. - The most senior member of the Technical Committee's term expires immediately, if in the preceding twelve months fewer than two Committee members' terms have ended. Seniority is determined by a member's most recent date of appointment to the Committee, with ties broken by length of membership in the Project. That should work okay along with: - A developer is not eligible to be reappointed to the committee if they have been a member for more than four of the past five years. But it sure gets confusing, especially with Colin having to resign after four years in order to be re-appointed to serve eight years, rather than maxing out at about six years and not being immediately re-appointable. Worse still with Keith who (I think) would max out after 3 and a bit years, get reappointed, and would then have to resign a few months later and get reappointed in order to max out at eight years... Maybe it would be simpler and better to go with something like: - On August 16th of each year, the terms of any Committee Members who have served on the committee for six or more years will ordinarily automatically expire. However an individual member's term may be extended for the next year, if two or more Committee Members have either left the Committee in the preceding twelve months, or served on the Committee for a longer continuous period. - A developer is not eligible to be reappointed to the Committee if they have been a member of the Committee at any time in the preceding twelve months. Assuming no one resigns or gets reappointed to the committee, that would mean: - Aug 16 2014 - Ian (16y), Bdale (14y) out; Alice, Bob in - Aug 16 2015 - Steve (10y), Andi (10y) out; Carol, Dave in - Aug 16 2016 - Russ (7y), Don (7y) out, Emma, Fred in - Aug 16 2017 - Colin (6y) out, Greta in - Aug 16 2018 - [no change] - Aug 16 2019 - [no change] - Aug 16 2020 - Keith (7y) out, Henry in Leaving: Alice, Bob - 6 years in Carol, Dave - 5 years in Emma, Fred - 4 years in Greta - 3 years in Henry - fresh blood Specifying "six years" means you effectively get seven years though, unless appointments manage to happen on or before Aug 16th. "5.5 years" is probably better, which would bring Keith's term back to 2019, and result in just under six years in practice, I think. "4.5 years" would get to Stefano's suggestion of 5y on / 1y off, which might look like: - Aug 16 2014 - Ian (16y), Bdale (14y) out; Alice, Bob in - Aug 16 2015 - Steve (10y), Andi (10y) out; Carol, Dave in - Aug 16 2016 - Russ (7y), Don (7y) out, Emma, Fred in - Aug 16 2017 - Colin (6y) out, Greta in - Aug 16 2018 - Keith (5y) out, Henry in Leaving: Alice, Bob - 4 years in Carol, Dave - 3 years in Emma, Fred - 2 years in Greta - 1 year in Henry - fresh blood Cheers, aj -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/cajs_lcveknrent4r3zjqdkc1wu0_4ufghun6+emj1ose1wd...@mail.gmail.com