DMB nominations, size and quorum

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre]

On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 4:31 PM, Brian Murray <brian at ubuntu.com> wrote:
[...]

> If I'm understanding this correctly right now we have 7 people in the
> DMB and our new quorum would be 3, with that it is possible that
> somebody could become an Ubuntu Core Developer with only 2 votes and
> with 4 people not voicing an opinion at all? Presumably the members were
> added to the board because other Ubuntu developers value their opinion
> but with the new system we wouldn't be taking them into account.  I'm
> not sure how I feel about that.
>
>
I concur, and for that reason I disagree with the proposal. It could
already be argued that the decisions are made arbitrarily when only a
fraction of the DMB ever shows up to the meetings. I'd be in favour of
reducing the number of people on the board (and strive to do better at
making it to the meetings), but not making quorum easier to achieve. We're
many people on the board precisely so we can reach that quorum of 4; and
that allows us to remove one or two people from the total number of people
on the board, if all of them do show up. Being absent once in a while is
fine, never showing up questions your will be sit on the board.


> That being said if we go down this route I wonder if we shouldn't shoot
> for a unanimous vote of the 3 people present, for applications only, and
> if it isn't then take it to the mailing.
>

I know it's hard to get people involved in the DMB in the first place, but
we should already be shooting for unanimous voting to add a new developer.
When the board isn't unanimous, it brings into question whether the
prospective developer is involved in the community in general, or in the
quality of the contributions (obviously, depending on the actual request).
In other words, someone wanting to get core-dev should be an easy,
unanimous vote most of the time.


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