On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 10:18:36PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 19/11/14 at 19:13 +0000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > Russ's reaction to this was that it would be very hard not to > > automatically reappoint a current member: > > > > The social pressures here don't work very well. In general, any > > approach that has the existing committee decide whether to retain > > a member who's already on the committee has the potential for hard > > feelings, creating future difficulties working together, and so forth. > > This is why I favor some system that requires a pause; that way, no > > one is put in the position of having to refuse to reappoint someone > > that they've worked with for the last eight years. > > > > -- https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2014/05/msg00081.html > > > > I found that pretty persuasive personally. > > OK, point taken. > So either we find a way to re-appoint a current member that avoids that > social pressure (but that would likely require changing the appointment > procedure entirely), or we drop the idea of not having a mandatory > vacation between two appointments. (which sounds more likely)
How about only accepting reappointment during the cooloff period if a.) the committee is short more than one person *AND* b.) the nomination comes from the DPL? That way, if the DPL observes that the TC clearly struggles to find a new member he can nominate a "cooloff:ee", but the TC cannot do so themselves. PS: To preempt possible objections that this allows for the TC to gamble the system by claiming that there are no viable candidates: I fully trust the TC to be above such behaviour *AND* I also fully trust the DPL to see through such a behaviour if it, against all odds, would take place. Kind regards, David -- /) David Weinehall <t...@debian.org> /) Rime on my window (\ // ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ // Diamond-white roses of fire // \) http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/ (/ Beautiful hoar-frost (/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141119223245.gg8...@hirohito.acc.umu.se