On 11/26/20 3:23 AM, Maurizio Galli wrote:
On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 17:05:57 +0100 Stasiek Michalski
wrote: Am Mi, 25. Nov, 2020 um 5:00 P. M. schrieb Vinzenz Vietzke
: Am 25.11.20 um 16:44 schrieb jdd@dodin.org:
oh, yes. all members?
Well, there's the problem: We need election officials for running elections. But who should be the election officials for the election of election officials? And how do we vote in the election for the election officials without having election officials setting up the election officials election voting system?
All in all I would not want to see such an spree of votings and elections if there is no actual incident forcing us to so.
I was gonna suggest membership officials as a body that could appoint election officials, but I think then we would need the members to vote for membership officials, which is kinda dangerous considering membership is granted by them, so they could technically only accept membership requests from people that favoured them, not good ;)
Having the membership officials doing that to me seems less appropriate considering that they are also appointed by the board. It's an unecessary redundancy in my opinion.
However beacause the board is already elected through a vote of the membership, I think we can accept and trust this "elected" body to appoint the next Election Committee. I don't see particular reasons to change this :).
Yeah that is kinda my thought as well, I think that this is something that could be discussed independently of this change, certainly if its something that is important to a significant part of the community i'd probably support it. However i'm not really passionate enough about it to write a proposal and push it. As the board we will soon be working on merging the rules around the membership officials into the same document as the board election rules which will make it easier for someone to then draft proposed changes in this area. Cheers -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B