On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 9:16 PM, Anthony Towns wrote:
> Hello world,
>
> Would anyone else be supportive of a proposal to set a term for tech ctte
> membership?
>
> The current tech ctte members were appointed:
>
> Ian: May/Dec 1998 (15 years, 5 months) [0]
> Bdale: Apr 2001 (13 years, 1 month)
Anthony Towns writes:
> On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 10:37:05AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> We could combine both features, though: set a term length of two years,
>> and then say that people can serve for two terms in succession but then
>> have to leave the committee for at least one term.
> Two
On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 09:02:25AM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> Russ Allbery:
> > I had picked four-year terms because I think adding one member every six
> > months (or two members every year) is probably near the upper limit of
> > membership management that the TC can deal with and still get
On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 10:37:05AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> >>> If we want the opportunity to appoint new members regularly, rather
> >>> than expire old members per se, we could just say that: "on July 1st,
> >>> the two longest serving ctte members' term expires" to end up with (on
> >>> aver
Hi,
Anthony Towns:
> That's an average of ~6 years, and a median of 5 years
You did not consider the current members.
> should probably be scaled down given the lack of involvement of most of
> those folks towards the end of their terms...
However, the current really-long-term members fail to e
On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 02:09:35PM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> 8 seems like it would be near ideal: turnover is dealt with only about
> once per year, it is close to the average of the existing members
> terms (7.385 years), and it's likely close the historical average
> (although I haven't cal
On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 11:02:17AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> The Australian senate (our federal parliament) has 8 year terms. In
(6 year terms; same as the US senate as it happens. We have 3 years
terms the house of reps and hence prime minister as compared to 2 year
terms for the US hous of
Hi,
Russ Allbery:
> I had picked four-year terms because I think adding one member every six
> months (or two members every year) is probably near the upper limit of
> membership management that the TC can deal with and still get other things
> done, and at the same time I think four years is near
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