TSC Membership Diversity
Status | RESOLVED |
Outcome | The TSC affirms that there should be no limits or quotas on TSC membership diversity |
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During the Hyperledger startup period there was a constraint on the number of TSC members from a single organization or its affiliates to no more than 3 members. I'd like to propose that the TSC Membership always be constrained such that no more than 25% of the members can be from one organization or its affiliates. Hyperledger is a project to promote decentralized networks, why wouldn't we want to ensure the technical leadership is also decentralized? Conway's law states: "organizations which design systems ... are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations."
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Done. For 2 I just co-opted this page.
That works. Thanks.
I support this initiative. No more than 25% means no more than 2 with the current 11 member structure.
The simplest approach would be amending section 4.a.ii of the charter with the verbiage dropped from section 4.a.i:
“… provided that no company (including related companies or affiliates under common control) shall have more than three (3) votes on the TSC.”
I think that wording is very poor though. There are indeed two possible interpretations: One is that no company can have more than 3 people on the TSC. Another is that companies can only have 3 votes, independently of how many people they have on the TSC. Meaning that some members have no votes.
Admittedly, the former is probably what's being meant but it should then just say that.
Thanks Todd for contributing to the debate. Your proposal overlaps others though so I'd like you to separate the different aspects so they can be more effectively managed:
#1 should go under TSC election - Who may vote ?
#2 should be put into a new topic called something like "TSC membership limit per organization"
#3 should go under TSC Size
Thank you.