Council quorum rules clarification (was: Re: Kubuntu Policies (for council consideration))

[Jussi Schultink]

On 6 Jun 2014 08:36, "Scott Kitterman" <ubuntu at kitterman.com> wrote:
>
> On Thursday, June 05, 2014 16:35:30 Philip Muskovac wrote:
> ...
> > Now to the coucil: I'm not quite sure how to intepret [1].
> > Taking it literally, quorum is 3x +1 no matter what the other 3 people
vote
> > (if at all). Which would mean though that 3x +1 and 3x -1 are a passing
> > vote of 0. Our old council voting rules [2] state that quorum is a
majority
> > vote with the chair having a casting vote, but we haven't had a chair
for
> > years (unless you consider jr to be the permanent chair)

This is what the ircc does and has done for a while.  Simple majority with
a dead lock breaker if needed.  How is it done on other councils?
> > Another quorum definition would be to require +3, with nobody voting -1
> > (which is what I personally favor, but that might be rather impractical
for
> > decision making) Or we require a general majority vote of people present
> > (i.e. 3 people have to vote for >= +3, for 6 people present it's >= +4,
and
> > for less than 3 people vote continues per mail unless at least +3 is
> > reached) I believe that's closest to the last CC discussion about this
[3]
> >
> > What may I understand as the correct interpretation here?
> ...
>
> How does this compare to what's in the documentation for kubuntu-dev to
> approave a new member?  I remember agreeing with that and think it's
likely
> what we meant for the council as well, but maybe better written.
>
> Scott K
>
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Jussi
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