Core Dev application: Paride Legovini (paride)

[Thomas Ward]

First, good luck getting Simon to vote - he still owes me contact for stuff.


+1 from me on Paride's application.


Thomas

On 12/16/21 04:41, Lukasz Zemczak wrote:
> In the meantime, could we maybe try handling this via e-mail? Maybe
> the absent members could vote here, via e-mail - or ask questions if
> they're not sure about their vote just yet.
>
> Thomas? Simon? Eric? Do you have any questions, or can you maybe
> already vote on Paride's application here, on this mailing thread?
>
> Cheers,
>
> On Thu, 16 Dec 2021 at 10:12, Paride Legovini<paride at ubuntu.com>  wrote:
>> Dan Streetman wrote on 14/12/2021:
>>> On Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 11:00 AM Robie Basak<robie.basak at ubuntu.com>  wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 01:14:00PM -0500, Dan Streetman wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, Dec 3, 2021 at 8:20 AM Paride Legovini<paride at ubuntu.com>  wrote:
>>>>>> Dear DMB,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I hereby apply to become a Core Developer:
>>>>> At the DMB meeting on 2021-12-13, your application received three +1
>>>>> votes, which was unanimous of those DMB members attending, however per
>>>>> our rules we need one more +1 vote for the application to pass, or the
>>>>> application needs a simple majority of votes at the next scheduled DMB
>>>>> meeting. Since our meeting ran quite long, some of our DMB members
>>>>> were not able to stay for the entire meeting.
>>>>>
>>>>> @rbasak can you provide your vote, which I believe was +1 in this
>>>>> case? That will be enough +1 votes for the application to pass.
>>>> I have generally been trying to follow the policy that I will abstain if
>>>> the applicant is a member of my team at Canonical. So I would really
>>>> prefer the three other DMB members would vote, because that would be the
>>>> most consistent way of handling this conflict of interest.
>>>>
>>>> As an exception, since DMB attendance at meetings has historically been
>>>> poor and it's harmful for applications to drag on, I've been providing a
>>>> +1 if (and only if) my vote will then achieve the absolute majority
>>>> requirement and all other votes are unanimously in favour. In other
>>>> words, only if there are 3 +1s and no other votes at a meeting.
>>>>
>>>> But now we have a simple majority being sufficient at a subsequent
>>>> meeting (new DMB rule), so perhaps it would be better to follow this
>>>> instead, to eliminate my exception above which wasn't great to do
>>>> anyway.
>>>>
>>>> I think then, going forward, I will simply abstain in the case of a
>>>> Canonical team member applicant, and allow the new simple majority rule
>>>> to take care of the case when other members are absent.
>>>>
>>>> So no formal vote from me - sorry - but I hope that you understand the
>>>> reason. Even though I am in favour of Paride becoming a core dev. I'll
>>>> allow the simple majority requirement to kick in on the next meeting.
>>> So though we canceled the Dec 27 meeting, as I mentioned at the end of
>>> our last meeting I'm planning to hold a 'pro forma' session to
>>> continue the 'absence counter' as outlined in our recent rules change
>>> that introduced mandatory maximum number of missed meetings for
>>> members, so that we can proceed to looking for new DMB members as soon
>>> as possible in 2022.
>>>
>>> If you'd prefer to continue to abstain from the vote, I'm happy to
>>> hold a short meeting Dec 27 by myself to unanimously vote in favor of
>>> Paride. That should cover all technicalities and stay within our rules
>>> and regulations.
>> First of all a big thanks to the DMB for allowing me to discuss my
>> application at the 2021-12-13 meeting, despite it being overtime.
>>
>> @Dan I appreciate your willingness to handle the simple majority vote
>> for my application on 2021-12-27, thank you. By all means, do so only if
>> it doesn't stretch the DMB rules, and if you are going to hold the
>> meeting in any case. I can wait until the following meeting, it is just
>> not fully clear to me if I have to add my name in the agenda as an
>> applicant, or if my application will count as a carried-over item.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Paride
>>
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