GR proposal, Call for Seconds - term limit for the tech-ctte

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Subject: GR proposal, Call for Seconds - term limit for the tech-ctte

From: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>

Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2014 12:20:25 +0100

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[ Cross post -vote, -project ; M-F-T: to -vote. For more background information on the development of this proposal, see https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2014/11/msg00274.html ] I'm hereby formally submitting the GR proposal included below between dashed double lines, and calling for seconds. With respect to past discussions on the -vote mailing list, this is the proposal code-named "2-S"; see [1,2] for (the last known versions of) alternative proposals. [1]: https://people.debian.org/~zack/gr-ctte-term-limit/ [2]: http://git.upsilon.cc/?p=text/gr-ctte-term-limit.git;a=tree =========================================================================== The Constitution is amended as follows: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- constitution.txt.orig 2014-11-17 18:02:53.314945907 +0100 +++ constitution.2-S.txt 2014-11-21 16:56:47.328071287 +0100 @@ -299,8 +299,20 @@ Project Leader may appoint new member(s) until the number of members reaches 6, at intervals of at least one week per appointment. - 5. If the Technical Committee and the Project Leader agree they may + 5. A Developer is not eligible to be (re)appointed to the Technical + Committee if they have been a member within the previous 12 months. + 6. If the Technical Committee and the Project Leader agree they may remove or replace an existing member of the Technical Committee. + 7. Term limit: + 1. On January 1st of each year the term of any Committee member + who has served more than 42 months (3.5 years) and who is one + of the two most senior members is set to expire on December + 31st of that year. + 2. A member of the Technical Committee is said to be more senior + than another if they were appointed earlier, or were appointed + at the same time and have been a member of the Debian Project + longer. In the event that a member has been appointed more + than once, only the most recent appointment is relevant. 6.3. Procedure --------------------------------------------------------------------------- As a transitional measure, if this GR is passed after January 1st, 2015, then the provision of section §6.2.7.1 is taken to have occurred on January 1st, 2015. =========================================================================== I'd like to thank Anthony Towns for introducing the term limit idea several months ago [3] and for his help in polishing it through several rounds of feedback on the -vote mailing list. [3]: https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2014/05/threads.html#00054 Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . zack@upsilon.cc . . . . o . . . o . o Maître de conférences . . . . . http://upsilon.cc/zack . . . o . . . o o Former Debian Project Leader . . @zack on identi.ca . . o o o . . . o . « the first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club »