ARB: Term lengths

[Allison Randal]

On 01/23/2012 07:25 AM, Daniel Holbach wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> in a conversation with Stéphane, he pointed out that the ARB members
> currently don't have term lengths specified in Launchpad:
> 
> 	https://launchpad.net/~app-review-board/+members
> 
> Allison, Andrew, Shane and Stéphane have been on board for 1 year and 4
> months and Bhavani, Jonathan and Luke for 3 months.
>
> I guess it makes sense to specify this and bring some regularity into
> the ARB. Most of Ubuntu's boards have a term length of 2 years, Stéphane
> suggested that 1 year might be better since there is more work involved
> than in other boards. (I can see Stéphane's point, but I also hope that
> we can simplify things further and get the queue down to just a few
> items soon.)

This was already set by the Tech Board to 2 years when the ARB was
formed. See the original documentation:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PostReleaseApps/Process#Application_Review_Board_Charter

And the refined version in the current ARB documentation:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AppReviewBoard/Charter

Allison