On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 03:55:30PM +0900, Emmet Hikory wrote: > Stephan Hermann wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 02:08:13AM -0400, Michael Casadevall wrote: > >> * Any MOTU can request the resignation of someone on > >> - -sru/-release, which can be brought up on the list and discussed. If > >> the issues can't be resolved, the MC will have to resolve it > > > > Regarding this, what would be a sane reason to do this, despite > > personal and social problems? > > I think we never had the case, that if someone has no time anymore, that > > he/she was glueing his/her bum on the chair for those teams? > > So, IMHO the only reason which can force such a thing is a personal > > quarrel or a social problem between the requesting motu and the motu in > > question? > > We've never historically had the issue. One other thing that > might cause such a thing is if someone silently goes on extended > vacation (yes, CoC is supposed to protect against this), and someone > thinks they ought be removed to make it more obvious there is indeed > an open slot on the team. Another possibility is if some member of > the team appeared not to be exercising the wisdom expected from their > position (lots of new upstreams approved that broke stuff, poorly > watched updates that caused lots of user complaint, etc.), in which > case I think public discussion is a good thing, and would expect most > cases to result in the withdrawl of the call for resignation (although > I'd hope that the selection process was strong enough that such a > person was never appointed to the team).
So it's only used for technical reasons (member MIA, not enough technical background for the job). Can we add a note to such a point, because it can be really mis-understood. > That said, I don't think this will see much use: generally we can > resolve most of our disputes more gracefully. On the other hand, if > we can't, I'd rather have a mechanism for removal in policy than have > to debate what the removal policy would be in the event that there was > strong sentiment that someone should be removed. /me too...but we should make sure, that this removal policy only deals with techincal matters. Regards, \sh -- Stephan '\sh' Hermann | OSS Developer & Systemadministrator JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.sourcecode.de/ GPG ID: 0xC098EFA8 | http://leonov.tv/ 3D8B 5138 0852 DA7A B83F DCCB C189 E733 C098 EFA8 -- Ubuntu-motu mailing list Ubuntu-motu@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu
