Re: Elections for the new PEAR Group and PEAR President

On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 5:58 AM, Martin Jansen <martin@divbyzero.net> wrote: > Travis Swicegood wrote: >> >> On Jun 1, 2008, at 1:01 PM, Martin Jansen wrote: >> >>> As of today, all registered PEAR developers can cast their votes in the >>> elections for the new PEAR Group and the new PEAR President: >>> >>> http://pear.php.net/election/ >> >> Correct me if I'm wrong, but the election is essentially done at this >> point, no? There's 7 slots on the group with 7 people running and one >> candidate for president. Is the full election even necessary at this? The >> Constitution doesn't seem to outline how members of the group are to be >> elected. > > We discussed this briefly in yesterdays Group meeting and came to the > conclusion to stick to the election process, if only to have a well-defined, > democratic process. And as David pointed out, it may happen that a > candidate gets no votes at all and thus gets no seat despite being > nominated. I actually thought we had a min vote requirement so that a person gets in, am I wrong there ? iirc it was 5 votes but I might be dead wrong and if we don't already then it's something we should consider if we ever have this kind of situation before. So lets say someone does not met the quota, then they don't get a seat and we'd actively seek for (a) person(s) to nominate them selfs and probably ask some of the old group to sit until a full new group has been formed. Any better ideas people ? I bet there are :-) Regards Helgi