Re: [Eligibility-discuss] Handling the fear of "bogus" recall petitions

Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> Sun, 27 October 2019 19:26 UTC

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From: Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>
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Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2019 08:26:42 +1300
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Subject: Re: [Eligibility-discuss] Handling the fear of "bogus" recall petitions
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On 28-Oct-19 08:04, Michael Richardson wrote:
> 
> Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> wrote:
>     > The alternative would be some complex criteria that petitioners must
>     > have been subscribed to N mailing lists for M months, or co-authored at
>     > least X drafts, or something like that. But that quickly becomes a
>     > bureaucratic nightmare. So I'd be more inclined to go with Adrian's
>     > idea, with maybe 1/3 of petitioners needing to be Nomcom-eligible.
> 
> Doesn't this break if we later change nomcom-eligible to include remote-only participants?

The two discussions may not be entirely separable.
 
> (I don't think that the complex criteria need to be bureaucratic. It's just a
> few lines of python)

Well, there are things like people whose email address changes but yes, it's
not really the mechanics of the criteria - just the complexity for people
to understand. The current rule is at least fairly simple.

   Brian