TSC Term length
Status | RESOLVED |
Outcome | Keep TSC term length to 1 year. |
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Should the TSC move to terms of n years, with 1/n of the members being elected each year?
Comments
2 years with 50% up for election each year sounds like a good plan.
I'm not so sure about this. We've had TSC members basically fade out because their job responsibilities changed (or they totally changed jobs). No one seems to want to resign, so we essentially get non-participants.
I guess the argument for 2 year terms would be more continuity on the TSC. But it seems like we already have that, so I'm not sure what problem this is solving.
Arnaud or Gary, can you persuade me why this would help us?
Perhaps extend the other proposal about losing your vote? perhaps we have a way for TSC members to "vote someone off the island"?
I think having some type of process whereby members can be removed for non-participation would be the way to solve this if we really get into a situation where we are not getting the aggregate level of participation we want. In Fabric we have a stated policy on voting to retire maintainers and it seems to work pretty well.
The main reason I like the 2 year term is because I think it can take new members a while to get up to speed plus I also think it's good to have continuity across the membership (assuming that someday we don't have as many repeat members).
Proposal: Extend to 2 years. To get started, randomly select half of the members (rounded down) whose term gets bumped to 2 years immediately.