On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 9:39 PM, Christian Grobmeier <grobme...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 9:37 PM, Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com> > wrote: >> On Jan 29, 2012, at 12:16 PM, Benson Margulies wrote: >>> On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Alan D. Cabrera <l...@toolazydogs.com> >>> wrote: >>>> On Jan 29, 2012, at 6:18 AM, Ate Douma wrote: >>>>> FTR: as should be clear from my above response, I disagree with the topic >>>>> of this discussion thread. This should be about Regular (re)election of >>>>> the PMC Chair. Regular rotation IMO would be unwise and undesirable. >>>> >>>> Good point. I share the same opinion. >>> >>> Let me try to state some alternatives: >>> >>> 1) No particular policy: The PMC has no special policy about >>> recommending a new chair to the board. It will happen if the chair >>> resigns, or if the PMC as a whole reaches a consensus on a change. >>> >>> 2) Fixed election schedule: On some schedule (e.g. annually), >>> nominations are opened, including potentially the current chair, and a >>> vote takes place. (I'd hate to have to fire up the full secret ballot >>> mechanism used for board members.) Whomever wins is recommended to the >>> board. ... >>> If we don't reach a consensus on something else, we stick with the >>> current state of affairs, which is, I claim, (1).
+1. I would like it changed. >> My preference is option 2 alone. I don't see the point of >> "term limits" as I believe that will take care of itself. I'm >> not in favor of 1 because it always seems to end up >> feeling like it is personal when people bring up rotating >> the chair - i.e. isn't the current chair doing a good enough >> job, the current chair should say they want to resign first, >> etc., rather than it just being time to allow the PMC to >> reevaluate itself > > +1 for option 2 and what Ralph said +1 cheers, Leo --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
