Watching other volunteer organizations, I've found that having turnover somewhere between 3-5 years tends to work fairly well.
I've seen this in student organizations where the turnover tends to be somewhat encouraged by graduation although in the cases I'm thinking of that did not force the issue. By 3 years someone is very good at what they do. However, they start to burn out and start to not notice or take advantage of good ideas. The burn out is becoming a significant issue by 5 years. I've seen the same thing in the IETF. There, two years is really just enough to learn some of the leadership roles and to get into the stride of things. Those roles are fairly intense. Four years tends to work quite well, but by 6 years (two year terms), people really do tend to be burned out. Even the best people are showing significant signs of being jaded and abrupt. They don't pursue things with the dedication they used to, they don't dedicate as much time to working with folks to understand all sides, consensus decisions seem to be more forced. Keep in mind that TC members can seek wizdom and institutional memory from outside the TC. There's nothing stopping a TC member next year from writing to Russ, Ian, collin, or even older TC members to get advice. The point should be to have people with good technical judgment and current willingness to come up with solutions that make the project stronger. That doesn't require a huge memory of being on the TC. --Sam -- 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/00000149ccdf9746-1d35b433-b0a5-4589-9623-6de0a0a06bac-000...@email.amazonses.com