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meta: merge TSC and CTC back into a single body #14973

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Merge the CTC and TSC back into a single body. Dependent on approval and landing of nodejs/TSC#317

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LGTM

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indutny commented Aug 22, 2017

LGTM

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There are conflicts between the procedure here and as defined in the TSC repo (and charter). Those probably need to be resolved.

I highlighted via inline comments the ones that I noticed, there could be more.

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employment by a CTC member, creates a situation where more than 1/3 of
the CTC membership shares an employer, then the situation must be
immediately remedied by the resignation or removal of one or more CTC
No more than 1/3 of the TSC members may be affiliated with the same
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This says 1/3, TSC charter says 1/4.

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Perhaps just update to 1/4 everywhere, if this fits with the current members set?

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We would need to decide. I prefer the 1/4 limit.

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1/4 looks better, especially if it doesn't contradict the current memebers list.

Also, preferring 1/4 would not cause a TSC charter change (and requesting approval from the board), and preferring 1/3 would.

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immediately remedied by the resignation or removal of one or more CTC
No more than 1/3 of the TSC members may be affiliated with the same
employer. If removal or resignation of a TSC member, or a change of
employment by a TSC member, creates a situation where more than 1/3 of
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ditto (1/3 and 1/4 conflict)

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closing vote or a vote to table the issue to the next meeting. All votes
(including votes to close or table) pass if and only if more than 50% of the CTC
(including votes to close or table) pass if and only if more than 50% of the TSC
members (excluding individuals who explicitly abstain) vote in favor. For
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Is this in line with the TSC charter? I am not sure if I understand https://github.com/nodejs/TSC/blob/master/TSC-Charter.md#section-8-voting, but it was mentioned yesterday that any abstention could be counted as a vote against the resolution there.

I would like us to keep the behavior defined in this (CTC) document, though, where explitic abstaintions are subtracted from the total number of people voting.

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Yes, the TSC Charter requires a simple majority (50%+1) for all votes.

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Can it be changed to allow explicit abstention?

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The reason for that is that CTC is both larger and in a certain sense more fragmented than TSC.

There are various areas of expertise, and e.g. I find it normal when someone abstains from a vote in some area where they don't have enough prior knowledge and delegate that to those who do.

Voting in general and explicit consensus particularly are already hard enough for CTC, and I expect that forcing 50%+1 for all votes and not allowing explicit abstention will make those even harder, perhaps even non-functional in a significant number of cases.

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Yes, it can explicitly allow for abstention.

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To clarify — by «explicit abstention» I mean the same one which CTC uses, where the number of explicitly abstained people gets subtracted from the total number of people in the CTC in the percentage formula.

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@ChALkeR ... I have updated nodejs/TSC#317 to include a modification to the charter clarifying the effect of absention on the vote. I've updated this PR to point to the TSC Charter for details, including the one-quarter rule.

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ChALkeR commented Aug 22, 2017

Overall, I am in favor of this, but currently there are conflicts that need to be resolved.

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Clarity in organizational hierarchy and coherence in roles & responsibilities - sounds great to me.

@ChALkeR ChALkeR dismissed their stale review August 22, 2017 14:42

Issues mentioned in the review are fixed not

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ChALkeR commented Aug 22, 2017

Argh, I can't edit the dismiss message. s/not/now/ in my message, sorry =).

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I am in favor of this.

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jasnell commented Aug 22, 2017

@Fishrock123 ... does that count as signoff? If so, can I ask you to please use the Approve/Request Changes workflow as a clearer indication.

Collaborators may opt to elevate pull requests or issues to the CTC for
discussion by assigning the `ctc-review` label. This should be done
Collaborators may opt to elevate pull requests or issues to the TSC for
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should this be tsc-review?

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@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ If you need help using or installing Node.js, please use the
* [Building Node.js](#building-nodejs)
* [Security](#security)
* [Current Project Team Members](#current-project-team-members)
* [CTC (Core Technical Committee)](#ctc-core-technical-committee)
* [TST (Technical Steering Committee)](#tsc-technical-steering-committee)
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s/TST/TSC/

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jasnell commented Aug 22, 2017

@evanlucas ... updated

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LGTM with a nit

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## Collaborators

The [nodejs/node](https://github.com/nodejs/node) GitHub repository is
maintained by Collaborators who are added by the CTC on an ongoing basis.
maintained by Collaborators who are added by the TST on an ongoing basis.
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s/TST/TSC/

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* Conduct guidelines
* Maintaining the list of additional Collaborators

* [Current list of CTC members](./README.md#current-project-team-members)
* [Current list of TSC members](./README.md#current-project-team-members)
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Micro-nit: The link should probably go to ./README.md#tsc-core-technical-committee which will link to the same place as https://github.com/nodejs/node#ctc-core-technical-committee one the ctc is changed to tsc in the README doc. Totally not a blocking objection, just a tiny suggestion.

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Items are added to the CTC agenda which are considered contentious or
are modifications of governance, contribution policy, CTC membership,
Items are added to the TSC agenda which are considered contentious or
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This paragraph is now redundant because it contains information already included in the TSC Charter. It's still good to have it here, I think, but it may be worth including a sentence somewhere in this doc that notes that if anything written in this doc is in contradiction with something in the TSC Charter, the TSC Charter takes precedence.

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(Also, that's another Totally Non-Blocking Suggestion.)

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That can be handled in a separate PR.

@@ -510,7 +514,7 @@ Previous releases may also have been signed with one of the following GPG keys:
### Working Groups

Information on the current Node.js Working Groups can be found in the
[CTC repository](https://github.com/nodejs/CTC/blob/master/WORKING_GROUPS.md).
[TSC repository](https://github.com/nodejs/TSC/blob/master/WORKING_GROUPS.md).
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This change means we'll need to merge the two WORKING_GROUPS.md docs. If anyone's feeling ambitious and wants to open a PR against the TSC repo to have that ready to go, that would be awesome. (Non-blocking, just pointing out something that someone may choose to act on at this time or not.)

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Yes, the corresponding PR against the TSC repo already does that.

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jasnell commented Aug 29, 2017

Landed in f3eb193

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Is there going to be a CTC meeting tomorrow morning?

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jasnell commented Aug 29, 2017

Yep, the CTC meeting schedule doesn't change.

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