Hello, On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 11:05 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" johannbg@gmail.com wrote:
and pump the number of server community members to 11 or 13 ( we are going to need all those people anyway. )
My experience from FESCo is that 9 can already make it challenging to keep up with the conversation (fairly frequently the IRC discussion ends up having 2 or 3 parallel sub-threads); having more members, and having all their opinions heard within a time-limited meeting is also more of a challenge. (And, if it ever came to that, I really can't imagine a phone discussion about a complex/controversial topic in 13 people, at least not without a costly protocol to give only one person voice at a time.)
There should be just one election and that's for the server group that will replaces the initial *chosen* WG after that there should not be any other elections that's a burden we do not want in a process like this so we either do as my proposal indicates which is to have each composition group being responsabile for chosing their member to appoint to their respective seat by or the individual stepping down selects another individual to take his place or better yet the remaining members of the WG choose an individual to take that seat.
I don't think long serving terms, and especially indefinite serving terms, are healthy: there should be an easy way for the community to self-correct without requiring extraordinary effort like finding a thick-skinned "opposition leader" to set up a recall election or the like.
AFAICT unlike (Czech and US at least) national governments, the Fedora elections have always had very low overhead and basically no campaign / pre-election posturing seasons disruptive to the project; there hasn't been much burden to speak of. Mirek