Re: Exceptions to renewals / new memberships processing during elections

[Federico Mena Quintero <federico gnome org>]

On Wed, 2013-05-29 at 20:09 +0200, Tobias Mueller wrote:

> On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 12:47:14PM -0400, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> > Indeed. But perhaps the Membership Committee can make it harder for a
> > member to make the mistake of not applying in time. For instance, what
> > if the duration of membership was changed so that it never, ever expired
> > in the same month as an election? Either shorten it to 23 months or
> > extend it to 25 months.
> uhh. I haven't looked it up but I think it's hardcoded in the bylaws. So 
> we would have to do some surgery there. I don't think it's worth it.
> Also, the query to get all active members, which is used in several 
> places, hard codes a two years interval.

We have amended the bylaws in the past; we can certainly do it again.
Resolving this conflict of membership periods vs. voting periods sounds
totally worthwhile.

Board members, what do we need to do this?

  Federico