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

[akuster]

On 06/15/2017 10:38 PM, Osier-mixon, Jeffrey wrote:
>
> Hi folks - we have a meeting planned for the end of the month. There 
> are two items I would like you to think about, as I am planning for a 
> vote on these. Please plan to attend the meeting, or let me know if 
> attendance will be a problem for you and I can gather your vote 
> beforehand.
>
> Last meeting, we agreed that Participant applications did not require 
> a direct vote if all of the answers to the form were “Yes”. Given that 
> we have very well-established guidelines for this program, I believe 
> this will make it much easier for companies to understand their 
> options. Likewise, Bronze applicants need to answer all questions 
> appropriately and provide their donation.
>
> I’d like to propose a similar vote reduction for YP Compatible. As 
> most of you know, we are revising this program to include vetting by 
> Richard’s new script, designed for this purpose to give automated 
> advice on whether a particular BSP follows YP-approved guidelines. The 
> proposal is to obviate voting on YP Compatible requests that meet two 
> criteria:
>
> 1.They are either update requests, e.g. to change version numbers, or 
> new applications that answer “Yes” to all criteria on the form
>
why would we need #2 if we do #1. #1 is sooo much easier

> 2.The layer in question passes RP’s new script perfectly
>
> All other requests, and anything fishy, would come up for a vote.
>
> 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.
>

What does a quorum look like these days with Platinum? Is there a quorum 
for Silver collective votes?

-armin
>
> Thanks, and please respond on the list with any discussion.
>
> Jeffrey “Jefro” Osier-Mixon, Intel Corporation
>
> Open Source Community Manager
>
>
>

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