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> On Aug 4, 2016, at 9:52 AM, Monty Taylor <mordred at inaugust.com> wrote:
> 
> 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>
>>> <mailto: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.

Thanks for clarifying that. I’d like to use the same system. I’m not sure if we want to hard-code that, or use the same flexible language and just agree on the process informally. I don’t have a strong reason for avoiding hard-coding it, other than maintaining flexibility.

> 
>>> 
>>>> 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
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> @flaper87
>>> Flavio Percoco
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