Re: Technical committee chair rotation, draft resolution

2006-02-27 Thread Ian Jackson
Steve Langasek writes (Re: Technical committee chair rotation, draft resolution): Voting no, for the record. In addition to the points raised regarding the length of term, this resolution purports to be a decision in advance about who will be elected chair at various future points, which I

Re: Technical committee chair rotation, draft resolution

2006-02-22 Thread Steve Langasek
Voting no, for the record. In addition to the points raised regarding the length of term, this resolution purports to be a decision in advance about who will be elected chair at various future points, which I don't believe is constitutionally valid. If a resolution were proposed that was a

Re: Technical committee chair rotation, draft resolution

2006-02-22 Thread Raul Miller
On 2/22/06, Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au wrote: On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 03:07:22PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: If you believe that, then the whole thing is going to be far too much hassle. We can't be having a faffy voting election thing every month or two just to routinely elect the

Re: Technical committee chair rotation, draft resolution

2006-02-22 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 03:07:01PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: On 2/22/06, Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au wrote: On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 03:07:22PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: If you believe that, then the whole thing is going to be far too much hassle. We can't be having a faffy

Re: Technical committee chair rotation, draft resolution

2006-02-21 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 12:20:11PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: THE COMMITTEE AND ITS MEMBERS RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS 3. The intent is that the Chairmanship should rotate through the committee in the following order, Ian Jackson[Feb / Aug] Steve Langasek [Mar / Sep]

Re: Technical committee chair rotation, draft resolution

2006-02-21 Thread Ian Jackson
Anthony Towns writes (Re: Technical committee chair rotation, draft resolution): Augh, we just agreed on a rotation, why a new one now? Downside to the above: it schedules newbies and oldbies together rather than interspersing them (Me then Andy; Bdale then Ian). Your resolution doesn't deal

Re: Technical committee chair rotation, draft resolution

2006-02-21 Thread Raul Miller
On 2/21/06, Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au wrote: Augh, we just agreed on a rotation, why a new one now? Downside to the above: it schedules newbies and oldbies together rather than interspersing them (Me then Andy; Bdale then Ian). Because the dates on the original proposal were already

Re: Technical committee chair rotation, draft resolution

2006-02-21 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 01:11:08PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: Anthony Towns writes (Re: Technical committee chair rotation, draft resolution): Augh, we just agreed on a rotation, why a new one now? Downside to the above: it schedules newbies and oldbies together rather than interspersing