[Community] Provision for admitting and removing stewards

[Joaquin Miller]

Daniel Perry wrote:
>If it is possible the procedure for replacing or removing the 
>stewards may change then we should put that procedure in the ByLaws.

OK.  I understand why that makes sense.

Let's think about whether we really expect it to change.

Do we really expect it to change more than once?  If about once, are 
we willing to bear (ask Dan to bear) the hassle of changing the 
Articles about one time?


I'm adamant on this.  BUT...

      It    IS   the single provision that defines the organization :

It is fine to put the principles in the Articles, but what the 
Stewards Council does will be determined by who the Stewards 
are.  They will be the stewards of the principles.

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I still feel the clean way to handle this is to simply specify a 
single procedure that admits or removes stewards, with the side 
effect that the group that nominated them becomes or is no longer a 
working group.  I hear the objection that is raised, but I feel 
strongly that there is no practical problem whatsoever with the 
single procedure approach.

(If the Council ever decides to remove a steward, the working group 
will soon recover from the bad feelings they experienced by 
technically not being a working group while they nominated a 
replacement steward.  Few people will even realize that is, 
technically, what happened.)

However, if we decide (or have already finally decided) that we must 
have two separate processes, one for working groups and a different 
one for stewards, then let's give a lot of thought to the cases that 
might arise, complicating things, as a result of their being two procedures.

And let's be clear that, for the community as a whole, and for all 
the other working groups, what is central is who are the stewards.

Cordially,

Joaquin
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