doc: revise TSC Meetings material in GOVERNANCE.md by Trott · Pull Request #27204 · nodejs/node (original) (raw)

Given that voting for approving TSC members happens in the TSC meetings it kind of makes sense for those issues to be added to the agenda.

I'm OK with adding it back if that's the consensus, but IIUC, the only reason that stuff was in the agenda was because this doc (and maybe others?) said or implied that it had to happen in a meeting. I suspect current TSC consensus would be that there's no reason for the vote to have to happen in a meeting. It can (and, IMO, should) happen in a GitHub issue. The new member can be announced/celebrated during the announcements portion of the meeting.

Voting during meetings is suboptimal and should be avoided IMO because it means only people who can attend that particular meeting get to vote. For membership votes (and some others), we subverted that by gathering votes ahead of time. But the gathering of votes ahead of time, especially for a non-controversial nomination, would seem to argue that the vote doesn't need to happen in the meeting.