Watching other volunteer organizations, I've found that having turnover
somewhere between 3-5 years tends to work fairly well.
I've seen this in student organizations where the turnover tends to be
somewhat encouraged by graduation although in the cases I'm thinking of
that did not force the issue
On 20/11/14 at 08:21 +, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 08:01:54AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> > > > I don't think that the TC is a stress-full role. Obviously the recent
> > > > past
> > > > proved how the role can be incredibly stressful at times. But there has
> > > > also
On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 08:01:54AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> > > I don't think that the TC is a stress-full role. Obviously the recent past
> > > proved how the role can be incredibly stressful at times. But there has
> > > also been long periods without much activity, [...]
FWIW, I agree wit
On 19/11/14 at 22:31 -0600, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 01:59:33PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> > On 19/11/14 at 12:25 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> > > On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 11:37:25AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> > > > I fear that, by reducing the average 'age' from
On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 01:59:33PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> On 19/11/14 at 12:25 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 11:37:25AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> > > I fear that, by reducing the average 'age' from 7.8 years to ~2 years,
> > > we are going too far. I woul
On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 10:18:36PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> On 19/11/14 at 19:13 +, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > Russ's reaction to this was that it would be very hard not to
> > automatically reappoint a current member:
> >
> > The social pressures here don't work very well. In general,
On 19/11/14 at 19:13 +, Anthony Towns wrote:
> Russ's reaction to this was that it would be very hard not to
> automatically reappoint a current member:
>
> The social pressures here don't work very well. In general, any
> approach that has the existing committee decide whether to retain
An easy way to resolve the question about the "mandatory vacation
period" would be to just have both variants available when this goes to
GR? In other words, let the project decide whether that seems prudent.
For the record, as the now-longest-serving member of the TC, I'll be the
first person to
On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 11:37:25AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> First, some data. The 'age' of each member of the TC (not excluding Russ and
> Colin) is:
> aba 2005-12-27 <8764pbxd9k@glaurung.internal.golden-gryphon.com>, 8.9y
> bdale 2001-04-17 <20010417195420.i5...@visi.net>, ~13.6y
> cjwat
On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 06:31:31PM +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> * Stefano Zacchiroli , 2014-11-18, 21:49:
> >-5. If the Technical Committee and the Project Leader agree they may
> >+5. A Developer is not eligible to be (re)appointed to the Technical
> >+ Committee if they have been a me
* Stefano Zacchiroli , 2014-11-18, 21:49:
-5. If the Technical Committee and the Project Leader agree they may
+5. A Developer is not eligible to be (re)appointed to the Technical
+ Committee if they have been a member within the previous 12 months.
+6. If the Technical Committe
On 19/11/14 at 12:25 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 11:37:25AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> > I fear that, by reducing the average 'age' from 7.8 years to ~2 years,
> > we are going too far. I would like to make it easier, for some members,
> > to stay members of the T
On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 11:37:25AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> On 18/11/14 at 21:49 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> > +5. A Developer is not eligible to be (re)appointed to the Technical
> > + Committee if they have been a member within the previous 12 months.
>
> Even if the possi
Hi,
First, some data. The 'age' of each member of the TC (not excluding Russ and
Colin) is:
aba 2005-12-27 <8764pbxd9k@glaurung.internal.golden-gryphon.com>, 8.9y
bdale 2001-04-17 <20010417195420.i5...@visi.net>, ~13.6y
cjwatson 2011-08-24 <20110824160257.ga30...@upsilon.cc>, 3.2y
don 2009-01-
Hi,
On Tue Nov 18, 2014 at 21:49:52 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> ===
> The Constitution is amended as follows:
>
> ---
> --- constitution.txt.orig
On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 11:33:10AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> Here is a draft GR text which builds on Anthony's work and implements
> some of the aspects discussed in this thread. See below for
> comments/rationales and the attachment for a wdiff.
Updated draft below.
Changelog is:
- fix
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