On Feb 20, 2013, at 6:31 PM, Lukas Blakk <[email protected]> wrote:
> We seem to have fallen off the list with this discussion. > Chairmanship will rotate every 2 months and during that 2 months the person > needs to be listed in the Wiki as a module owner? Correct. > > I'm definitely concerned then that this will results in potentially stale > documentation and a tremendous lack of historical perspective for the Mozilla > Reps module itself. To be clear: there is the Mozilla Reps module which has a long-term module owner then there is the Mozilla Reps Council sub-module which has a different owner every 2 months. It's for this sub-module that we want to experiment with rotating ownership. William > The Module system seems to exist largely to give each module a sense of > historical perspective: the hows and whys of a module over time. Sure, there > are other reasons too but the history of decisions around a module's path > forward seems to me the largest loss if ownership changes hands every 2 > months. > > -Lukas > > > On Feb 20, 2013, at 6:45 AM, William Quiviger <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> On Feb 20, 2013, at 3:40 PM, Gervase Markham <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On 20/02/13 05:59, Lukas Blakk wrote: >>>> If the chair of the council is a rotating position, I am a bit >>>> concerned about module ownership churn. Most of our module owners >>>> seem to get the position and then stay attached to their module(s) >>>> for a fairly long time. >>> >>> Do you think there is a valid distinction here between code and non-code >>> modules? Clearly there's advantage to a code module owner being in place >>> for a long time. Is that equally true of all non-code modules? >> >> I would argue that it is not equally true for non-code modules. >>> >>> In this case, it's effectively that a different peer becomes owner in >>> each period, then goes back to being a peer. >>> >>>> than "the current chair" if that position rotates often and I'm not >>>> sure what that would look like. Perhaps the current and most recent >>>> former chair so that there's some coverage from the past at the same >>>> time? >>> >>> Can someone remind us of the frequency with which the chairmanship rotates? >> >> Chairmanship used to rotate on a monthly basis, but starting March 1st it >> will be every 2 months. >> >> - w > _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
