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Remove grace period on resolutions 

The charter currently mandates that after a motion receives sufficient
votes to pass, it must stay open for further comments and voting for a
minimum of 3 calendar days. This is in addition to motions needing to
stay open for a minimum of 7 calendar days.

This grace period is a bit impractical to enforce, and in some cases
just delays decisions and creates frustration. This change removes it
from the charter, and advise to apply common sense instead. If the
chair senses that there are concerns that are still unvoiced, a delay
should be applied. If all else fails, it's easy enough to revert a
change if someone disagrees after the fact, using our 'rollback'
house rule[1].

[1] https://governance.openstack.org/tc/reference/house-rules.html

Change-Id: Ib3e12511a8d551ac4fcc76cec79f14b46a704ce0
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Thierry Carrez 2020-06-12 17:24:53 +02:00
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@ -115,9 +115,7 @@ TC members can vote positively, negatively, or abstain (using the
"RollCall-Vote" in Gerrit). Decisions need more positive votes than negative
votes (ties mean the motion is rejected), and a minimum of positive votes of at
least one third of the total number of TC members (rounded up: in a 13-member
committee that means a minimum of 5 approvers). After a motion receives
sufficient votes to pass, it must stay open for further comments and voting for
a minimum of 3 calendar days.
committee that means a minimum of 5 approvers).
Patches with motions should use the gerrit topic tag ``formal-vote``.