Nominations: Developer Membership Board

[Dan Streetman]

On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 3:09 PM Brian Murray <brian at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 02:54:02PM -0400, Dan Streetman wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 9:40 AM Onno Benschop <onno at itmaze.com.au> wrote:
> > >
> > > One way to leverage these volunteers is to deputise them and have them participate in the activities as a shadow member.
> >
> > Personally, I don't know where the fixed size of the DMB came from;
> > there's nothing magic about 7 people. I suppose the TB controls this
> > currently though, so the DMB would either need to write up a full
> > charter that includes control over the membership size, or ask the TB
> > to adjust the size.
> >
> > I don't see any particular reason to fix the size at 7, and I'd quite
> > like it if the team grew in size.
>
> Haven't there problems with reaching the number of votes necessary for a
> quorum in the past? I'd rather see the team reduce in size[1] so that its
> easier for applications to be approved.

What I meant was that if *more* than 7 people are interested in
joining the team, we shouldn't necessarily turn people away just
because we have a fixed size limit. I don't mean that we should fix
the limit at a larger size.

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