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<p>Technical Board:<br>
<br>
During the Developer Membership Board meeting today[1], there was
an action item / discussion item regarding the removal of two DMB
members who have been inactive for an extended period of time.
Unfortunately, there was an increased amount of argument and
disagreement by members in attendance over how to execute this
policy.</p>
<p>In August of 2021, the DMB proposed [2] and then in November
approved [3] a requirement for DMB members as follows:</p>
<p>> Any DMB member who fails to attend 6 consecutive scheduled
DMB meetings (during a period no shorter than 12 weeks) shall be
considered inactive and removed from membership in the DMB. Since
the number of members required for quorum is 1/2 the number of
active DMB members, rounded up, the change in the number of active
members will affect quorum. At such time as any DMB member is
found to be inactive due to this rule, the current DMB chair will
add an action item to schedule a public vote for a new DMB member.
Previous DMB members, including those changed to inactive due to
this rule, are eligible to run in the new election and any later
elections. This proposal is not retroactive, and the attendance
requirement shall start the first meeting after this proposal is
adopted.</p>
<p>(see
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DeveloperMembershipBoard/KnowledgeBase#Rules_and_Regulations">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DeveloperMembershipBoard/KnowledgeBase#Rules_and_Regulations</a>)</p>
<p>There are currently two individuals on the DMB who are in
violation of this policy decided upon over 3 months ago; the
specific names can be provided upon request privately for the TB's
knowledge if the information is required or pertinent.<br>
</p>
<p>Both of these members have not been present for at least 6
consecutive meetings and as such are in violation of the agreed
upon policy that was passed in November.<br>
</p>
<p>During the DMB meeting today (Feb. 7, 2022), a major disagreement
came up between Dan Streetman and Robie Basak, over the fact that,
"While we have decided upon this policy, we never discussed *how*
we would do this." As such, a massive point of contention rose
today in the meeting.</p>
<p>Dan Streetman has proposed removing the members who meet this
criterion immediately and begin the process of drafting elections
for two new members to replace the individuals who are now in
violation of this policy.</p>
<p>Robie Basak is against any action until both aforementioned
individuals have had a chance to respond before we remove them.
He is also of the position that any response from the absent
members would not necessarily affect any decision on their
removal, however Robie is of the opinion that all individuals must
be contacted first and must have a chance to respond before we
simply remove any absent members.<br>
</p>
<p>Unfortunately, the DMB could not come to agreement on this, and
have requested to escalate this to the Technical Board for
determination of how we should address this, and help to determine
the proper procedure in this case.<br>
</p>
<p>I would request that the TB make a decision as to how the DMB
should proceed, or if the TB chooses to not handle this, escalate
to the proper group to handle this decision.<br>
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<p>Thomas Ward</p>
<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://launchpad.net/~teward">https://launchpad.net/~teward</a><br>
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<p>Developer Membership Board Member</p>
<p>[1]:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2022/02/07/%23ubuntu-meeting.html#t16:13">https://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2022/02/07/%23ubuntu-meeting.html#t16:13</a><br>
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<p>[2]:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/devel-permissions/2021-August/001726.html">https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/devel-permissions/2021-August/001726.html</a></p>
<p>[3]:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/devel-permissions/2021-November/001780.html">https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/devel-permissions/2021-November/001780.html</a><br>
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