Core Dev application: Paride Legovini (paride)

[Dan Streetman]

On Fri, Dec 17, 2021 at 2:54 PM Thomas Ward <teward at ubuntu.com> wrote:
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> First, good luck getting Simon to vote - he still owes me contact for stuff.
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> +1 from me on Paride's application.

Excellent thanks, that makes 4 which is all we need.

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> Thomas
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> On 12/16/21 04:41, Lukasz Zemczak wrote:
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> 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.
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> Thomas? Simon? Eric? Do you have any questions, or can you maybe
> already vote on Paride's application here, on this mailing thread?
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> Cheers,
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> On Thu, 16 Dec 2021 at 10:12, Paride Legovini <paride at ubuntu.com> wrote:
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> Dan Streetman wrote on 14/12/2021:
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> On Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 11:00 AM Robie Basak <robie.basak at ubuntu.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 01:14:00PM -0500, Dan Streetman wrote:
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> On Fri, Dec 3, 2021 at 8:20 AM Paride Legovini <paride at ubuntu.com> wrote:
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> Dear DMB,
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> I hereby apply to become a Core Developer:
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> 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.
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> 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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