Constitutional basis
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- - §6.1.6 Together with the Project Leader, (the TC may) appoint new members to itself or remove existing members.
- - §6.3.4 Confidentiality of appointments. The Technical Committee may hold confidential discussions via private email or a private mailing list or other means to discuss appointments to the Committee. However, votes on appointments must be public.
+ - §6.1.6 Together with the Project Leader, (the TC may) appoint new members
+to itself or remove existing members.
+ - §6.3.4 Confidentiality of appointments. The Technical Committee may hold
+confidential discussions via private email or a private mailing list or other
+means to discuss appointments to the Committee. However, votes on appointments
+must be public.
Procedure
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-This procedure assumes there is one seat to fill. Some of its steps will be common or run in parallel for multiple seat fillings.
+This procedure assumes there is one seat to fill. Some of its steps will be
+common or run in parallel for multiple seat fillings.
Call for nominations
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-At this point, the TC needs to fill its set of nominees with interested project members. To achieve this, an email is sent to debian-devel-announce@l.d.o calling for (self-)nominations to be sent to the private TC alias debian-ctte-private@debian.org. Current TC members can obviously also nominate project members.
+At this point, the TC needs to fill its set of nominees with interested project
+members. To achieve this, an email is sent to debian-devel-announce@l.d.o
+calling for (self-)nominations to be sent to the private TC alias
+debian-ctte-private@debian.org. Current TC members can obviously also nominate
+project members.
- Every nomination is acknowledged.
- - Every non-self nominee is informed of their nomination and is asked to indicate if they are willing to be considered for appointment. Nominees are informed of the conditions below.
+ - Every non-self nominee is informed of their nomination and is asked to
+indicate if they are willing to be considered for appointment. Nominees are
+informed of the conditions below.
Communication to the project:
- The TC *does not* make nominations or their acceptances public;
- - The TC *does not* make the number of nominees or number of accepted nominations public.
+ - The TC *does* make public:
+ - the number of nominees,
+ - the number of accepted nominations.
Data collection
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-In order to enhance their decision-making data, TC members will collect some data about the nominees and publish their findings to the private alias. The point of that data collection is to get a better understanding of their skills, their history within the project, their effect on conversations, etc.
+In order to enhance their decision-making data, TC members will collect some
+data about the nominees and publish their findings to the private alias. The
+point of that data collection is to get a better understanding of their skills,
+their history within the project, their effect on conversations, etc.
Communication to the project:
Shortlisting and picking a preferred candidate
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-Given the above data, any current TC member *can* vet for one or multiple nominees they would like to see on an *internal* ballot. The TC would then use the Standard Resolution Procedure **in private** to sort the list of candidates (+ FD).
+Given the above data, any current TC member *can* vet for one or multiple
+nominees they would like to see on an *internal* ballot. The TC would then use
+the Standard Resolution Procedure **in private** to sort the list of candidates
+(+ FD).
Communication to the project:
Question:
- - Does this private vote respect letter and/or intent of §6.3.4 "votes on appointments must be public"?
+ - Does this private vote respect letter and/or intent of §6.3.4 "votes on
+appointments must be public"?
Check for eventual DPL veto
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-In order to avoid any potential drama, the TC would **privately** ask the DPL if they would later accept the nomination of the preffered candidate.
+In order to avoid any potential drama, the TC would **privately** ask the DPL
+if they would later accept the nomination of the preffered candidate.
Public vote
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-The TC would use the Standard Resolution Procedure **in public** on a ballot containing only the preferred candidate and FD. Once the result is known or no longer in doubt (but ideally, once every current member has voted), the DPL is informed.
+The TC would use the Standard Resolution Procedure **in public** on a ballot
+containing only the preferred candidate and FD. Once the result is known or no
+longer in doubt (but ideally, once every current member has voted), the DPL is
+informed.
Appointment by the DPL
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-When they see fit, the DPL would appoint the candidate as selected by the public vote; ideally on debian-devel-announce@l.d.o .
+When they see fit, the DPL would appoint the candidate as selected by the
+public vote; ideally on debian-devel-announce@l.d.o .
(This is really outside of the TC's realm.)