Tim Starling wrote:
The first and most important measure to improve the
speed of the AC is
to reduce the necessary quorum to three members. Decisions are made by a
simple majority. Any member of the arbitration committee may request a
review of such decisions by the full committee.
The second is that deliberation should be conducted by IRC, not email.
Cases will still be accepted on the wiki, and findings will still be
announced on the wiki. But deliberations will be performed by any and
all AC members present in #arbcom.wikipedia, as long as there is more
than three of them.
I agree that the first is a useful change, since getting the full
committee together in a timely manner with peoples' schedules seems like
it will remain nearly impossible no matter what combination of people
are on it. I'm not sure the second one is necessary though: The primary
problem right now is that there are few arbitrators with lots of free
time, and few non-arbitrators with lots of free time who have expressed
an interest in becoming arbitrators. If we had at least a few
arbitrators with a lot of free time, I'm not sure email would be
insufficient, and if we don't have arbitrators with free time, nobody
will use IRC any more than they use email.
-Mark