[yocto-ab] YP Advisory Board: voting issues for next meeting

[Otavio Salvador]

On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 4:48 PM, Jeff Osier-Mixon <jefro at jefro.net> wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 7:56 AM, Otavio Salvador
> <otavio.salvador at ossystems.com.br> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 2:38 AM, Osier-mixon, Jeffrey
>> <jeffrey.osier-mixon at intel.com> wrote:
>> ...
>> > The second vote reduction proposal has to do with meetings. For the past
>> > few
>> > years, it has been difficult to get a quorum at Advisory Board meetings,
>> > so
>> > we have not been voting at the meetings themselves. This is problematic
>> > for
>> > a number of reasons. It was suggested at the last meeting that we change
>> > our
>> > voting system to no longer require a quorum at meetings – those members
>> > present can vote and pass issues without resorting to the mailing list.
>> > I
>> > would further propose that for this purpose, all votes taken at meetings
>> > without a quorum must be unanimous.
>> >
>> > For most of the issues voted on by the Advisory Board, I don’t see a
>> > problem
>> > with this at all, and it would encourage members to show up at meetings.
>> > As
>> > always, all meetings are announced at least two weeks ahead of time.
>>
>> I am against it; we can instead allow votes on mailing list and not
>> during the meetings.
>
>
> I respect your position, especially as I see you make an effort to vote
> every time one is called for. However, we already allow votes by email. We
> have not voted conclusively in any other way for at least 2 years.
>
> I have found that it can take repeated requests to get a response from most
> of the organizations on the members list, and some members simply never
> respond. It is getting to be extremely difficult to get a quorum *in any
> way*. I am open to other ideas on voting, including enabling individual
> members to vote by email if they show themselves to be responsive, but I
> have to be able to get a vote on an issue within 2 weeks, otherwise this
> governing body is standing in the way of progress for its own project.

So add a deadline for votes; but dropping the requirement for voting is wrong.

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