#470 Two proposals regarding elected Fedora Council reps
Closed: resolved 3 months ago by amoloney. Opened 6 months ago by mattdm.

  1. Currently, we elect one Council representative every six months, for a twelve-month term. I think the idea was to provide continuity. However:
    • In practice, this stagger is more confusing than useful. We have a lot of longer-term Council positions.
    • It doubles the election overhead. Likewise, it's actually easier to bring on two new people at once.
    • I have an unsupported intuition that we'd get more interest and attention when it's not just one seat available.
    • A new person elected in November makes it hard to plan for our annual in-person meeting in January or early February.

Therefore, I propose that we move to having both elected reps aligned with the April/May release -- still a 1-year term, but both at the same time. We could either

A. Make the presently-to-be-elected term a short one, ending in 6 months.
B. Go the other way, and make it 18 months.
C. Extend the current term by six months, skipping the current election.

My suggestion would be C, presuming the current representative (@bookwar) is up for it.

  1. While we're at a it, what do you all think about expanding the number of elected reps from two to three? With the new Executive Sponsor duty, and with everything we've got planned, I feel like more is merrier.

I've created a topic on Fedora Discussion for this ticket.

Please keep this ticket focused. Discuss there, and record votes and decisions here. Thanks!

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5 months ago

Based on the discussion, here's my current proposal ("option D"):

In April/May, elect two representatives. There will be three elected positions from May for about half a year, until the end-of-term at the F41 election cycle (at which point Akashdeep's normal term ends). After that, we'll continue with two elected representatives, with both terms ending and beginning in April/May every year.

+1 (option D)

+0 (option d)

After discussing this at the Fedora Council hackfest in 2024, the council has decided:

Agreed: Move the council elections to once per year, targeting the April/May timeframe. To enact this now, we will allow for two candidates to be elected to the council in April/May 2024 for one year, and the council will have an extra member until the November/December 2024 elected members term has ended.

Council documentation relating to elections will be updated to reflect this change.

Metadata Update from @amoloney:
- Issue close_status updated to: resolved
- Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)

3 months ago

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