From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932972AbXHXB1l (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Aug 2007 21:27:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1763673AbXHXB1c (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Aug 2007 21:27:32 -0400 Received: from straum.hexapodia.org ([64.81.70.185]:42731 "EHLO straum.hexapodia.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761276AbXHXB1b (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Aug 2007 21:27:31 -0400 Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 18:27:30 -0700 From: Andy Isaacson To: James Bottomley Cc: Matt Mackall , Matthew Wilcox , Matthew Garrett , Tech Board Discuss , linux-kernel , ksummit-2007-discuss@thunk.org Subject: Re: [Tech-board-discuss] Re: [Ksummit-2007-discuss] Re: Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board Elections Message-ID: <20070824012730.GA1243@hexapodia.org> References: <1187796179.3410.32.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20070822224400.GA17255@srcf.ucam.org> <20070823002618.GO9163@parisc-linux.org> <20070823003748.GR30556@waste.org> <20070823004209.GP9163@parisc-linux.org> <20070823011953.GS30556@waste.org> <1187832907.3410.141.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1187832907.3410.141.camel@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-GPG-Fingerprint: 1914 0645 FD53 C18E EEEF C402 4A69 B1F3 68D2 A63F X-GPG-Key-URL: http://web.hexapodia.org/~adi/gpg.txt X-Domestic-Surveillance: money launder bomb tax evasion Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 08:35:07PM -0500, James Bottomley wrote: > > While I think that's laudable, we definitely don't have the resources > > for that, as everyone on the TAB already has a full workload. And it > > hardly seems worth the trouble for a once-a-year election. > > Exactly ... we want a process that's simple and transparent. We chose > voting at the KS because almost all the attendees satisfy the "made > significant contributions to Linux" requirement without us having to do > anything or make any controversial determinations. Like Matt said, > better suggestions are welcome. This is a dumb suggestion, but... How about one vote per git commit merged to linus' tree? Might be worthwhile to allocate votes for Acked-By and so on, as well. -andy