Re: DISCUSSION: publish list of nominees?

[Brian E Carpenter <brian@hursley.ibm.com>]

Robert Elz wrote:
> 
>     Date:        Thu, 28 Mar 2002 15:18:15 +0100
>     From:        Brian E Carpenter <brian@hursley.ibm.com>
>     Message-ID:  <3CA32627.247C6421@hursley.ibm.com>
> 
>   | I don't see that. Publishing a snapshot of the list of *nominees* (not
>   | *candidates*)
> 
> I understand the distinction.
> 
>   | exactly once works perfectly well to broaden the scope of community input.
> 
> So the nomcom gets to hear all the bad (and sometimes good) things about the
> initial list they selected, and nothing at all about the replacements they
> picked after hearing all that bad stuff???

I would assume that they would consult people as today about any new names
that came up. But you're correct, there is an asymmetry.
> 
> That sounds like a thoroughly unfair and ineffective way to make progress,
> and a very good way to make sure that no-one with half a brain would agree
> to be nominated until after the list had been published.

Fair enough, so maybe a hard cutoff for nominations is needed. That is what
most organisations do anyway.

   Brian