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On 08/04/2016 08:05 AM, Doug Hellmann wrote:
> 
>> On Aug 4, 2016, at 6:14 AM, Flavio Percoco <flavio at redhat.com
>> <mailto:flavio at redhat.com>> wrote:
>>
>> On 04/08/16 09:46 +0200, Thierry Carrez wrote:
>>> Morgan Fainberg wrote:
>>>> NOTE: Cross-posted to this list as well as the -dev list.
>>>>
>>>> Based upon my personal time demands among a number of other reasons I
>>>> will be stepping down from the Technical Committee. This is planned to
>>>> take effect with the next TC election so that my seat will be up to be
>>>> filled at that time.
>>>>
>>>> For those who elected me in, thank you.
>>>
>>> Hijacking this branch of the thread to discuss how to replace Morgan at
>>> next election, since our charter is a bit unclear on that.
>>>
>>> We have two options:
>>>
>>> 1/ just renew 7 seats at the fall election (and 6 seats next spring)
>>
>> I'd prefer #1, tbh. I'd rather have someone elected for the entire
>> period than
>> having a temporary member that might not be re-elected on the Northern
>> Spring. 6
>> months won't likely be enough for the 7th elected member to shine and
>> be amazing
>> and it sounds unfair to me.
> 
> While I agree that it’s less than ideal, there are a lot of situations
> in which a partial term might come up, and we don’t want to rewrite the
> charter every time we get into a new situation. If Morgan needed to step
> down right now, or a month or two ago, we would likely have wanted an
> interim replacement earlier. We should fix up the charter to allow that.

I agree that fixing up the charter to allow for a generalized mechanism
for member replacement is a good idea.

> I believe the board has an informal replacement policy of looking back
> at the last election and taking the next person down the list, don’t
> they? That seems reasonable for us, too. In this case, since Morgan is
> going to serve until the election, we should select the 7th from those
> results to serve a half term. I think this is Thierry’s option 2, isn’t it?

The board bylaws state that in the case a replacement individual
director is needed, the remaining individual directors will select one,
or may choose to not select a replacement. So far in the cases it has
come up, the individual directors have chosen to look at the prior
election because it seemed like a good way to go about it.

>>
>>> 2/ hold a normal 6-seat election in fall and give Morgan's seat for 6
>>> months to whoever ranks 7th
>>>
>>> I'm fine with both, but if we do (1) we'll have to update the charter
>>> (which explicitly says "6 seats are renewed every (Northern hemisphere)
>>> Fall, and 7 seats are renewed every Spring"). So it may be simpler to do
>>> (2).
>>>
>>> Thoughts ? I added this to the agenda for next meeting (which I'll miss).
>>
>> Put this up for the sake of voting/discussing this
>> argument: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/351104/
>>
>> Happy to help with this change,
>> Flavio
>>
>> -- 
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>> Flavio Percoco
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