[Starlingx-discuss] Filling in leadership roles that opened up between elections

[Ildiko Vancsa]

Thanks Dean for the feedback and support.

We also had a discussion about this on the TSC call today and were in an agreement about holding interim elections to fill in the open positions.

The election officials started the preparations, please stay tuned for updates.

In the meantime please don’t hesitate to raise further questions or comments if you have any.

Thanks and Best Regards,
Ildikó


> On Jan 16, 2020, at 16:58, Dean Troyer <dtroyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 3:43 AM Ildiko Vancsa <ildiko.vancsa at gmail.com> wrote:
>> As a practice within project teams in OpenStack there are two ways forward they usually take depending on the circumstances:
>> 
>> 1. Delegating the departing PTL's responsibilities to a successor for the rest of the term
>> 2. Call for a special election to find a successor
>> 
>> The departing PTL is encouraged to choose from options #1 or #2. In case the remaining term is short the usual practice is option #1 while when the remaining time is longer they hold an interim election for the project team that elects a new PTL for the remaining term.
>> 
>> When the case remains unresolved by the departing PTL the TC has the responsibility to act where they also choose between options #1 and #2 with taking similar considerations as mentioned above.
>> 
>> I think it would be beneficial to consider adopting a similar process for the StarlingX community as well. In the specific cases we have currently I would suggest holding elections for the affected teams as more than half of the terms are still left till the next PL/TL elections.
> 
> I think this is a reasonable approach and like the idea of StarlingX
> following that precedent from OpenStack.
> 
> dt
> 
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> Dean Troyer
> dtroyer at gmail.com