On 11/02/2021 09:00, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via ripe-list wrote:
2 or 3 terms, plus a "freeze period" (1 term? 1 year?) to avoid
cases where a chair "jumps" to another WG.
I would completely support this if there weren't already problems
in getting enough people to take on the extra workload of becoming
a WG chair.
It could also be the other way round. People might be discouraged to
run against the long-time chairs.
**** Exactly, that's was my point, it looks that I was not able to
find the best wording. I've seen that in other organizations, not
just here.
1) You ask for volunteers to replace "existing co-chair a" 2) There
are 1-2 volunteers 3) "existing co-chair a" say, I will also
volunteer to continue 4) There are comments like "existing co-chair
a" has been there for long time, he knows the job ... 5) the 1-2
volunteers then drop-out.
May be the recommendation should be "2 terms maximum, 2 years each,
then 1 year minimum stop, unless there are no other volunteers to
fill the vacancy".
No.
I understand the sympathy towards "people might be discouraged to run
against the long-time chairs" and we should encourage young and fresh
energy into taking a chairing roles and leading roles - but as many up
to now already pointed out: This is a community and not some
governmental organization or court.
If long-standing chairs are performing well, doing their job and WG is
active and producing satisfying results - I see no issue with them
continuing the good job that they were doing up to date.
Believe me - if there is any sign of chair not doing the right thing and
when this continues - the process of "rotation" will start among the
participants of particular WG and at the end of a day the chair in
question will be hinted to just not stand up again for re-election and
problem will be solved one way or another.
And at the end of a day, stability of WGs is also something that counts
- provided that WGs are not stalling and doing their job.
On the other hand - if WG has good chairs that are taking a WG work to
another level and their term expires and there are no other candidates
to chair the WG - what happens then? Because of some rules that were
meant to solve some corner cases you loose good chairs?
Come on Jordi, you know better than that...
Cheers, Jan
