>>>>> "Lucas" == Lucas Nussbaum <lu...@debian.org> writes:
Lucas> (Elaborating on the context a bit given the discussion spread
Lucas> over some time -- two options have been proposed: - expire
Lucas> the 2 most senior members - expire the 2-R most senior
Lucas> members, with R the number of resignations over the last 12
Lucas> months)
Lucas> What we want to encourage is, I think, a sane and healthy
Lucas> turnover in the TC. Ideally, this would happen automatically:
Lucas> members would just resign when they feel that bringing fresh
Lucas> manpower is profitable to the TC overall. However, there's a
Lucas> number of social reasons why this doesn't work so well.
Lucas> which might weaken the TC a bit too much. With the '2-R'
Lucas> schema, I have an additional incentive to resign: if I
Lucas> resign, I 'save' someone else more senior than me from
Lucas> getting expired. (And given I'm not so active anymore,
Lucas> instead of weakening the TC further, my resignation might
Lucas> even reinforce the TC).
Lucas> The '2-R' schema could even result in an internal TC
Lucas> discussion: "OK, the Project wants us to change two
Lucas> members. Are there people that feel like resigning now? Or
Lucas> should we just fallback to the default of expiring the two
Lucas> most senior members?" I think that if this happened, it
Lucas> would be very healthy for the TC.
I think such discussions would be good.
I don't think this conflicts with what I said about term limits earlier
this morning.
While I do think that 4-5 years is a good term length, I do think a lot
of churn can be bad, and 2-r makes a lot of sense to me for the reason
you give above.
--Sam
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