[oe] OE TSC

[Richard Purdie]

The TSC has considered its position and is saddened to agree that it has
not been doing well at helping OpenEmbedded in the ways it would like
over recent months. There is no one root cause of this, just that its
members have all been pulled in different directions and several people
have not had the time to spend on OE to do justice to their TSC role.

As such it is with regret that Chris, Holger, Mickey and Phil have
decided to stand down from the TSC. Each person has their reasons they
may or may not decide to share but they're all different and they are
primarily personal ones. The TSC would like to make it clear these are
not any reflection on OE, any of the decisions being discussed by OE
such as Yocto or any personality issues. The people standing down do
wish to continue being involved with the project but have simply come to
realise they do not have the time to be able to help the TSC function
particularly now when its needed more than ever.

Richard is not standing down as whilst he also has time constraints, he
feels he has a contribution to make to the TSC and can and will make
time available to do this. This also allows for some continuity for the
TSC which is important, not least to try and learn from past experience.

On this subject the TSC would like to comment on the reasons they feel
things have failed other than a lack of time of its members to work on
issues as mentioned above. There are varying viewpoints on this but we
all agree the two strong themes were process (lack of) and also the type
of people on the TSC.

Process issues:

* Lack of a formal agenda process being enacted and followed. This lead 
  to lack of preparation by TSC members for meetings
* Meetings once per month may be been too in frequent and a short once 
  per week meeting might have been more effective.
* Lack of minute taking and general process skills in the TSC members 
  (or lack of time for it)
* The TSC never did define a formal interaction process between it and 
  the community.

Membership issues:

* TSC members ended up not actively involved in the project on a day to 
  day basis.
* This lead to a lack of desire for active change
* Large fraction of "old-timer" members. These people are valuable but 
  the TSC was unbalanced in that regard and this may have stifled 
  change.

The TSC doesn't select its own membership so we feel it important to
reflect some of the membership concerns to the OE membership and the
board as its these people who elect the TSC.

There are various issues needing attention ASAP and therefore the TSC
would like to propose that we call for candidates and that the board
then empower an interim TSC based on the result of that call without
waiting for a vote. If there are more candidates than seats it will go
to a vote, if we don't get enough, some current TSC members may consider
assisting the TSC until there are replacement candidates, ultimately
this issue is at the board's discretion.

Individual TSC members are going to be free to provide more information
to this summary as they feel appropriate.

The TSC is not self electing so we're going to hand this issue over to
the board at this point to determine the way forward.

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The OE TSC