From fabf3019200a59ac8b3eeabb64850a801a8aa273 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thierry Carrez Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2020 17:24:53 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] 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 --- reference/charter.rst | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/reference/charter.rst b/reference/charter.rst index 5a6fbebdd..79f189941 100644 --- a/reference/charter.rst +++ b/reference/charter.rst @@ -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``.