stalled charter ratification

[Dan Streetman]

So, it looks like the TB 'ratification' of our charter is basically
stalled and I don't see any kind of vote on it actually happening
anytime soon.

What I'd like to propose to our team is to simply drop our need to get
any kind of ratification from the TB, and to remove the TB approval
stipulation from our charter (so our team can make changes to it just
by a vote).

There's no actual need for us to get our charter ratified by the TB
that I know of (I certainly don't know of anything in writing
requiring it), and we always considered the TB to have the power to
overrule and/or revert any decision or action we made, anyway. So
simply approving our own charter and moving on without the TB probably
is the best approach, IMHO.

If you both have no concerns about that, I'd suggest that we do one
more round of discussion on the charter with the 'TB approval' parts
removed and make any other adjustments we think are appropriate, and
then vote to finalize it, and move on with actually getting real work
done :-)

One change we may want to consider is adding a higher vote requirement
for charter changes, like maybe a 2/3 or 3/4 vote instead of simple
majority - like what mapreri suggested before. That probably makes
more sense without the additional requirement for TB approval.

We do have a IRC meeting tomorrow (Wed) so we can discuss then if
needed and hopefully have a decision by the end of the meeting; I'll
put a discussion item on the agenda.