GB Rep term should match SC terms

[parispittman]

Problem Statement

GB rep is 2 years, Steering rep is 2 years but they are not concurrent. It would be a smoother process if they were concurrent with the person elected to GBs Steering term. If they are not, the person will have ~1 year where they need to make sure they link up with steering, ask to be fit into the agenda, etc; whereas, they would already be in those meetings if they still sat on Steering.

We also include emeritus members in the process for GB which in my experience would also be hard because that person would need to be extremely active in the community still.

Proposed Solution

• one option: make terms 1 or 3 years to catch up with the cycles but in my experience, 3 years is too long and 1 year is not long enough since the group only meets 2-3x a year as it is which is hard for making change.
• second option: have an alternate that is on a different term schedule than the elected person; 1 year active and then 1 year as alternate - provides an onboarding path and then at least 3 meetings champion

Open Questions

• should they be concurrent?
• what's the process for electing someone?

Next Steps

• new steering body should debate and discuss

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[parispittman]

spoke about second option with adding an alternative that is on a different term cycle at the last Steering Committee meeting http://bit.ly/k8s-steering-wd

@caniszczyk - what's our next step with adding an alt to the k8s rep GB role? steering is in favor of adding.

[BenTheElder]

cc @cblecker

I think currently what we've resolved to instead is to make sure we have steering + GB rep communication channels and are relatively OK with the non-aligned terms.