Lucas Nussbaum <lu...@debian.org> writes: > On 20/11/14 at 13:04 -0500, Hubert Chathi wrote: >> On Thu, 20 Nov 2014 17:59:31 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli <z...@debian.org> >> said: >> >> > On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 12:33:28PM +0000, Sam Hartman wrote: >> >> 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. >> >> > Not sure if you've read it Sam, but just in case: I find Phil's >> > example in <871toz16nz....@hands.com> to be most convincing against >> > the 2-R model in general. ... >> >> I think someone had already mentioned this option, but one way to avoid >> the effects of that issue, for those who want to avoid always expiring 2 >> members, is to expire 2-S members, where S is the number of members who >> have resigned since the last review period, and who would have been >> expired at the current review period if they had not resigned. So the >> resignation of a junior member would not affect the expiry process, but >> the resignation of a senior member would mean that we would have one >> less expiry. > > It was proposed by Anthony in <20141119220621.ga31...@master.debian.org>: > >> However, another option would be "2-R'" where only retirements of people >> who would otherwise be candidates for expiry count. So Russ quitting >> after serving 5.8 years would count, but Colin resigning after serving >> "just" 3.2 years wouldn't. That doesn't seem like it's especially easy >> to specify either though. > > Note that there are two subtle variants: > - only resignations from people > 4.5y count in R' (Anthony's) > - only resignations from people who would have been expired count in S > (yours)
FWIW I think either of those deals with the concerns I raised, as it's going to be way too much effort to game that, and I cannot see why anyone would want to bother to do so. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/ http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg, GERMANY
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