On 8/19/06, Daniel Vainsencher danielv@tx.technion.ac.il wrote:
We need a policy for this, and I personally tend towards "reelect the whole board when the time comes, or some low threshold is passed (say, after 4 quits), whichever is first".
I tend to agree. It's not that the board is unable to perform now that one member has left. Holding an election is a lot of work, not the mechanics per se, but getting everyone to vote etcetera :-)
An alternative: ask the first runner-up of the previous elections to join.
BTW, another relevant question of policy - when does the current board expire?
It's probably "documented" in some mailing list archive, but the idea was to hold elections every year around the same time, which would be February...