Elections

[Stéphane Graber]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 04:02:47PM +0000, Iain Lane wrote:
> Hi TB,
> 
> Full quoting an email from the DMB's private list.
> 
> tl;dr: Could you please extend the expirations of ~bdrung, ~laney,
> ~kitterman and ~stgraber to 2014-02-16? We need to elect replacements
> for these folk, and it works best if we can align it with the meeting
> schedule.
> 
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 11:13:56AM -0500, Stéphane Graber wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 09, 2015 at 06:16:38PM +0000, Iain Lane wrote:
> > > Howdy,
> > > 
> > > We need to hold some elections.
> > > 
> > >   https://launchpad.net/~developer-membership-board/+members
> > > 
> > > I don't think we have enough time to wait until the next meeting to
> > > discuss this.
> > > 
> > > 2 week nomination period + 2 weeks of voting.
> > > 
> > > cal tells me that this is a good timetable
> > > 
> > >   Nomination starts 2014-01-11
> > >   Repeat call 2014-01-18
> > >   Nomination ends 2014-01-25
> > >   Voting starts 2014-01-25
>       v I inserted a week here v
> > >   Reminder 2014-02-08
> > >   Voting ends 2014-02-15
> > >   New members start 2014-02-16
> > > 
> > > If not enough nominees on 2014-02-15, extend by 1 or 2 weeks and call
> > > again, repeat until done.
> > > 
> > > With this timetable, we should extend the memberships of the expiring
> > > members until 2014-02-16, so that we are quorate for the confirmation
> > > vote. This isn't a meeting week, so we'll need to have one specially.
> > > 
> > > Or we could move everything, including the expiry dates, by one week so
> > > that the end date is 2014-02-23 which is a meeting day.
> > > 
> > > Thoughts? I don't mind sending out the usual emails as I've done it
> > > before and everything is in the u-d-a archives anyway. But if someone
> > > else wants to then they are welcome to it, preferably someone who isn't
> > > expiring (that means you bdmurry and xnox).
> > > 
> > > Cheers,
> > 
> > Moving everything by one week seems fine to me. If we need to extend
> > membership anyway, an extra week isn't really a problem :)
> > 
> > So I'd say, let's send an e-mail to the TB with our timetable, ask them
> > to extend membership to 2014-02-23 to accomodate this and then send out
> > the call for nominates.
> 
> OK, Sending this reply to the TB. Thanks. Here's the new timetable.
> Doesn't need to be 2015-02-23, -16 is enough AFAICS, which is only a two
> day extension. This is because I messed up the original timings and
> inserted a week. I also wrote 2014- everywhere when I meant 2015- :).
> Despite what I said, 2015-02-16 is a meeting date (01-19, 02-02, 02-16)
> so I think we can basically fit this in with only two more days needed
> for the expiring members.
> 
>   Nomination starts 2015-01-19
>   Repeat call 2015-01-26
>   Nomination ends 2015-02-02
>   Voting starts 2015-02-02
>   Reminder 2015-02-09
>   Voting ends 2015-02-16 (before meeting)
>   New members start 2015-02-17
> 
> If you agree, could you extend the expiry dates of the members who are
> running out this year to 2014-02-16 please? Assuming it goes smoothly,
> we'll then be back in touch on that date for you to add the new members.
> 
>   https://launchpad.net/~developer-membership-board/+members
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -- 
> Iain Lane                                  [ iain at orangesquash.org.uk ]
> Debian Developer                                   [ laney at debian.org ]
> Ubuntu Developer                                   [ laney at ubuntu.com ]


I'm obviously happy with the above plan and happy to do the Launchpad
updates but being on both boards and being one of the affected members,
I'll only do so once another TB member acks the plan :)

-- 
Stéphane Graber
Ubuntu developer
http://www.ubuntu.com
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