Incorporate feedback from core team

Author: Dr-Irv

governance.md

@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ The foundations of Project governance are:
 
 To manage the project, there are different Teams that each have responsibility for
 specific aspects of the project. Collectively, the members of all Teams are referred to
-as _Stewards_ of the project.
+as _Stewards_ of the project.  Individuals may be members of more than one Team.
 
 ## Steering Committee
 
@@ -82,6 +82,9 @@ a consistent manner. The Steering Committee has no routine decision-making autho
 except as detailed herein, although in exceptional circumstances it may be called upon
 from time to time to make decisions that are in the best interest of The Project as a
 whole. The Steering Committee will itself decide when a circumstance is exceptional.
+The Steering Committee may not override a PDEP.  When the Steering Committee meets to
+discuss an issue, the members of the Steering Committee are responsible for soliciting
+input from members of the relevant Teams.
 
 The Steering Committee may create a working group to consider changes to the governance
 model described in this document, including the creation of new Teams that support the
@@ -95,42 +98,51 @@ governance, that fall outside the scope of responsibilities for the existing Tea
 The ideal composition of the Steering Committee consists of 5 people.  The Steering
 Committee will be chosen via an approval voting process from a slate of nominees,
 meaning that each person who is eligible to vote may vote for more than one candidate
-from the slate.  
+from the slate.  All members of each Team, except the Code of Conduct Team, are 
+eligible to vote.  
 
 ### Initial Election
 
 The initial slate for the Steering Committee election will consist of 5 or more
 candidates who volunteer to be on the slate of candidates for the initial Steering
-Committee.  For the initial election, any candidate receiving more than 50% of the total
-number of members of the previous _pandas_ core team that register at least one vote
-will then become a member of the initial Steering Committee. 
+Committee.  For the initial election, the members of the previous _pandas_ core team
+will vote via an approval voting process.  The top 5 candidates receiving votes
+will then become members of the initial Steering Committee. 
 
 ### Subsequent Elections  
 
 Subsequent changes to the membership of the Steering Committee will occur towards the
-end of each calendar year.  By November 30 of each year, each member of the Steering
+end of each calendar year.  By October 31 of each year, each member of the Steering
 Committee will be asked if they would like to continue in that role. If any member
 decides to step down from the Steering Committee, new volunteers will be solicited from
-the group of stewards by the Steering Committee.  Those new volunteers will then be on a
-slate for an election that will occur by December 15 of that year.  For each year after
+the group of stewards by the Steering Committee.  Those new volunteers, along with any
+current Steering Committee members who wish to remain on the Steering Committee,
+will then be on a
+slate for an election that will occur by November 15 of that year.  For each year after
 the initial election, the current Steering Committee members plus any new volunteers on
 the slate will be elected via approval voting, with the top 5 candidates elected as
 Steering Committee members for the subsequent year.
 
+The terms of each member of the Steering Committee are from January
+1 to December 31 of each calendar year, and Steering Committee members may serve for
+any number of multiple terms, provided that they are re-elected in each annual election.
+
+
 ## Teams
 
 Each Team has defined responsibilities for different aspects of the project.  As a
 general rule, an Individual Contributor can be nominated by a member of a Team to become
 a member of that Team, and the Team must unanimously agree to admitting that person to
 the Team, since every Team member becomes a Steward of the Project. If a member of a
-Team is inactive for more than one year, the Team may unanimously decide to remove that
+Team is inactive for more than one year, the active members of the Team 
+may unanimously decide to remove that
 person from the Team. Each Team will maintain its own private mailing list if the Team
 deems it to be necessary. There will also be a mailing list consisting of all Stewards
 of all Teams.
 
-Each Team has specific responsibilities as well as Permissions authorities, as defined
-below. In addition, specific criteria are used by Team Members to guide decisions on
-adding new Members to the Team.
+Each Team has specific responsibilities as well as authorities over permissions, as
+defined below. In addition, specific criteria are used by Team Members to guide
+decisions on adding new Members to the Team.
 
 The description of each Team can be found in https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas-governance/teams.md .
 
@@ -152,7 +164,9 @@ All Stewards shall disclose to the Steering Committee
 any conflict of interest they may have. Stewards with a conflict of
 interest in a particular issue may participate in Team discussions on that
 issue, but must recuse themselves from voting on the issue, if such
-a vote is necessary.
+a vote is necessary.  If a conflict of interest is not disclosed and later uncovered,
+it will be left to the Steering Committee to decide how to handle the lack of disclosure
+on a case-by-case basis
 
 ### Private communications of the Steering Committee
 
@@ -191,7 +205,8 @@ an institutional context does not allow an entity to become an Institutional
 Partner. Financial gifts, which are recognized on the _pandas_ web site,
 do not enable an entity to become an Institutional
 Partner. Once an institution becomes eligible for Institutional Partnership,
-the Steering Committee must nominate and approve the Partnership.
+the Steering Committee must nominate and approve the Partnership, after soliciting
+input from the Stewards.
 If at some point an existing Institutional Partner stops having any contributing
 employees, then a one year grace period commences. If at the end of this one year period
 they continue to not have any contributing employees, then their Institutional