OpenJDK Governing Board CFV: Delay the 2020 Governing Board election by one week?

[Georges Saab]

vote: yes

> On Mar 6, 2020, at 2:22 PM, mark.reinhold at oracle.com wrote:
> 
> // This is a call for votes from Members of the Governing Board.
> // If you aren’t a Member of the Governing Board, please don’t vote.
> 
> The annual nomination and voting process for At-Large Members of the
> Governing Board is underway [1].  In order to satisfy the Bylaws, the
> election of At-Large Members must be complete by 1 April [2].  The
> present schedule meets that goal.
> 
> Only OpenJDK Members [3] may vote in this election.  Andrew Hughes has
> suggested [4] that the voting period be delayed by one week, so that
> votes on nominations of new OpenJDK Members that were prompted by the
> announcement of the At-Large nomination period may complete prior to
> the At-Large voting period.  This would allow any new such OpenJDK
> Members to participate in the At-Large vote.
> 
> If we choose to delay the At-Large voting period then the term for
> At-Large Members will, this year, start on 8 April rather than 1 April.
> 
> To avoid this issue in future years we’ll start the At-Large nomination
> period one week earlier, so that there’s a one-week gap between the end
> of the nomination period and the start of the voting period.
> 
> MOTION: Delay this year’s voting period for At-Large Members of the
>        Governing Board by one week, to start on Tuesday, 24 March.
> 
> Votes by Governing Board Members on this motion are due in one week, by
> 23:00 UTC on Friday, 13 March.  This decision will be made by Simple
> Majority [5].  Votes must be cast in the open by replying on this
> mailing list.
> 
> - Mark
> 
> 
> [1] https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/announce/2020-March/000281.html
> [2] https://openjdk.java.net/bylaws#at-large-members
> [3] https://openjdk.java.net/bylaws#openjdk-member
> [4] https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/discuss/2020-March/005295.html
> [5] https://openjdk.java.net/bylaws#simple-majority