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On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 10:24 AM, Doug Hellmann <doug at doughellmann.com>
wrote:

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> On Aug 4, 2016, at 1:15 PM, Doug Hellmann <doug at doughellmann.com> wrote:
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> On Aug 4, 2016, at 1:10 PM, Sean Dague <sean at dague.net> wrote:
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> On 08/04/2016 10:07 AM, Flavio Percoco wrote:
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> On 04/08/16 09:56 -0400, Doug Hellmann wrote:
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> On Aug 4, 2016, at 9:52 AM, Monty Taylor <mordred at inaugust.com> wrote:
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> On 08/04/2016 08:05 AM, Doug Hellmann wrote:
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> On Aug 4, 2016, at 6:14 AM, Flavio Percoco <flavio at redhat.com
> <mailto:flavio at redhat.com <flavio at redhat.com>>
> <mailto:flavio at redhat.com <flavio at redhat.com> <mailto:flavio at redhat.com
> <flavio at redhat.com>>>> wrote:
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> On 04/08/16 09:46 +0200, Thierry Carrez wrote:
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> Morgan Fainberg wrote:
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> NOTE: Cross-posted to this list as well as the -dev list.
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> 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.
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> For those who elected me in, thank you.
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> Hijacking this branch of the thread to discuss how to replace
> Morgan at
> next election, since our charter is a bit unclear on that.
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> We have two options:
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> 1/ just renew 7 seats at the fall election (and 6 seats next spring)
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> I agree that fixing up the charter to allow for a generalized mechanism
> for member replacement is a good idea.
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> 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?
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> The process sounds flexible enough, I don't think hard-coding it would
> take some
> flexibility away.
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> I think my preference is to use the board process here. Have it formally
> be a TC level decision so we're not springing a special election on
> people during vacation season. And putting the election mechanism into
> play out of rhythm when people aren't expecting it.
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> And with that TC decision, my recommendation should just look at the
> results from the most recent election -
> http://civs.cs.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/results.pl?id=E_fef5cc22eb3dc27a and
> ask folks from the top down if it's something they are still interested in.
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> Right, though Morgan has said he’ll serve through the next election, so
> we’d use that one this time.
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> Here’s some wording to work on: https://review.openstack.org/351295
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> Doug
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For the record, if the general consensus is I should step down now, I'll
happily do so, but in the interest of providing continuity and easing the
transition (as this thread has shown) I was planning on serving through
until the next election.

--Morgan
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