On Thu, Jun 5, 2025 at 12:23 PM Robie Basak <robie.basak@ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Getting enough volunteers has been a struggle for a number of years now.
> Resignations and absentees have also caused considerable difficulties in
> making decisions, as the DMB requires a simple majority of all board
> members to make most decisions.
Indeed.
> So I wonder if it's worth continuing with elections at all? What if the
> Technical Board were to just appoint DMB members as they felt
> appropriate with a simple announcement, inviting prospective members to
> apply to the TB directly?
That makes a whole lot of sense, honestly. Unless doing poorly, those
in DMB should be able to continue serving the board till they'd like -
I see no reason why we should remove them especially when we don't
have more volunteers to replace them with, as we've all noted this
time and also many times in the past.
I think the Techboard should delegate DMB and could/should rotate the
seats however they see fit.
> If volunteers were to increase in number in the future, we could go back
> to the election process.
Yep, of course.
> Here's a concrete proposal:
>
> [...]
> Feedback appreciated.
+1 for me - I have thought about it in the past but then dismissed it
because this wasn't how we did things in Ubuntu but I'm glad you felt
the same. :)
- u
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