TB election in progress

[Adam Conrad]

On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 05:01:55PM +0200, Daniel Holbach wrote:
> 
> in the next two weeks (until 2016-04-26 12:00 UTC) all of you are member
> of ~ubuntu-dev have time to send in your vote for the TB election. As
> always, we're using CIVS for this process.

I had meant to send this email before the election started, but the
best laid plans of mice and men, and all of that.

In a TB meeting earlier this year[1], the current TB voted to reduce
the number of non-sabdfl seats from 6 to 5.  The rationale for this
is to avoid deadlocked votes.  One could argue that Mark exists as a
permanent TB member to break deadlocks, but given that our governance
structure is set up in a way that Mark has absolute veto (even if the
TB were to vote N-0 against him), it seems more useful to have the TB
functional and deadlock-free in Mark's absence, allowing him to veto
as he sees necessary, but not have to be in the position of breaking
tied votes.

This decision would, I assume, have to be ratified by Mark and/or the
CC, hence the recipients of this email.

I propose that if this is acceptable to all involved, the current
election continue as planned, but we just take the top 5 winners, not
the top 6.

... Adam

[1] http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2016/01/19/%23ubuntu-meeting-2.html#t17:16