Homebrew Annual General Meeting 2021

Minutes

2021-02-26 11:00-0800 Call to order
11:00–11:01 Adoption of the agenda

Motions

11:01–11:05 Motion to adopt the voting system, Greg Brimble

Greg Brimble moves to adopt the STV election method to elect the PLC and the Schulze method to elect the project leader. https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/10637

Motion carried unanimously.

https://www.opavote.com/results/4758678377857024
Shaun Jackman moves to suspend the rules requiring a three week waiting period and to adopt these election systems immediately. Motion carried unanimously.

Reports

11:05-11:20 Project Leadership Committee’s report, Jon Chang
11:20–11:25 Treasurer’s report of the financial statements, Jon Chang
11:25–11:40 Technical Steering Committee’s report, Misty De Meo
11:40–11:55 Project Leader’s report, Mike McQuaid

Elections

11:55–11:57 Election of the Project Leadership Committee

Jonathan Chang and Issy Long are elected.

https://www.opavote.com/results/5937355983683584
11:57–12:00 Election of the Project Leader

Mike McQuaid elected by acclamation.
12:00–12:10 Recess

Member presentations

12:10–12:20 Shaun Jackman - Bottle hosting
12:20–12:30 Daniel Nachun - Relocating bottles using binary patching
12:30–12:35 Caleb Xu - Quickbrew: native compiled brew https://github.com/alebcay/quickbrew
12:35–12:40 Rylan Polster - Renaming branches in Homebrew https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/10424
12:40–12:45 Michka Popoff - Merging the cores https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/7028
12:45–12:50 Michka Popoff - Linux CI for homebrew-core https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/10597
12:50–13:55 Misty De Meo - Running Homebrew on Apple Silicon
12:55–13:00 Shaun Jackman - Speeding up install times / Git repo size https://github.com/Homebrew/install/issues/523
13:10 Meeting adjourned

Resolutions

Motion to adopt the voting system

Project Leader

The Homebrew Project Leader will be chosen by holding a Schulze Condorcet method election. This popular method of voting is used by several organizations such as Wikimedia, Debian and Ubuntu. The single highest-ranked candidate, who is preferred over every other candidate in pairwise comparisons, will be elected to become the Project Leader.

Voting by proxy is permitted, and proxy votes count towards the quorum for the election.

Project Leadership Committee (PLC)

The Homebrew Project Leadership Committee will be chosen by holding a Meek Single Transferable Vote (STV) election. The quota (threshold) of votes for a candidate to be elected will be calculated using the Droop quota.