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On 5/12/19 9:05 am, Zane Bitter wrote:
> On 5/12/19 6:26 am, Jean-Philippe Evrard wrote:
>> On Wed, 2019-12-04 at 22:18 -0500, Zane Bitter wrote:
>>> On 4/12/19 6:50 pm, Jeremy Stanley wrote:
>>>> Tangential to election scheduling but still on the topic of
>>>> election
>>>> planning, last cycle a bunch of folks jumped on the "let's shrink
>>>> the TC!" bandwagon *while* the election process was already
>>>> underway. That was of course not an appropriate time to talk about
>>>> changes to election parameters. But now(ish) *is* the right time.
>>>>
>>>> So to reopen that discussion we previously put a pin in, how many
>>>> TC
>>>> seats should we fill in the coming election, and how many should we
>>>> delete? There were a few different suggestions, some following a
>>>> less aggressive timeline than others. We would normally have 7
>>>> seats
>>>> up for grabs in the coming round... do we reduce it to 6 (and work
>>>> with an even-number-sized TC), or just 5 (targeting a TC of 11 for
>>>> Ussuri into "V")? Or something even more drastic like just letting
>>>> them all expire and filling none, immediately down-sizing to a TC
>>>> of
>>>> 6 members? Thoughts?
>>>
>>> This is pretty well-settled:
>>>
>>> https://review.opendev.org/681266
>>>
>>> (At least assuming we ignore the fact that JP merged it when it had
>>> only
>>> 8 of the 9 required votes, which I only just noticed. Naughty JP.)
>>>
>>>
>>
>> You know I like being naughty!
>> However, I don't think I was it this time: For a TC of 13 members, 7 is
>> the simple majority. We had consensus too :)
> 
> But amending the charter itself requires 2/3 majority:
> 
> https://governance.openstack.org/tc/reference/charter.html#amendment

Closing the loop on this, we got 3 more TC members to retroactively 
comment with their approval, so the rules are satisfied.

I proposed a tweak to the documentation to help remind us that we should 
use the `charter-change` tag rather than `formal-vote` in future - it's 
currently easy to miss because of the non-locality of the documentation 
sections describing them: https://review.opendev.org/697511

- ZB