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From: "Alan D. Cabrera" <list@toolazydogs.com>
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Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 11:30:23 -0800
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To: "William A. Rowe Jr." <wrowe@rowe-clan.net>

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On Jan 29, 2012, at 11:24 AM, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote:

> On 1/29/2012 12:11 AM, Alan D. Cabrera wrote:
>>=20
>> I intend to nominate Noel J. Bergman but would like to see the =
community come to a consensus about the rotation of the chair.  (Dibs on =
Noel)  :)
>=20
> If this goes to a nominations and a ballot, isn't that implicit that
> we've agreed to rotate the chair?

I would rather have a community discussion, consensus and explicit vote =
about the PMC chair rotation and its working parameters on this list =
before we move on to some implicit agreement that began from a, imnsho, =
premature call for nominations on a private list.

> I general, because of the moving parts in incubator, I'd prefer we
> didn't try to rotate annually, but perhaps ever 2 or 3 years, if the
> elected chairs are willing to put up and commit for that long.

That's a good point that I hadn't considered.  Maybe 2-3 years is a good =
idea.


Regards,
Alan


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