Re: assigning sole responsibility of tasks
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> Anyway, i just think if it could be avoided we shouldnt depend on one
> person.
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a) the majority of the time, this one person is the only one willing to do
it.
b) you can't really delegate in a volunteer group, where there is no real
chain of hierarchy, other than term of work (e.g. I am responsible for
the debian-sparc port, mainly because I have been doing it so long, not
because I have been given any certain power by anyone).
The "issue" you describe is a basic result of our inner workings. Changing
it would require changing a lot of other things, and IMO would be fatal to
the project. Responsibility for tasks pass from person to person quite
regularly, without many problems. Sometimes, yes, things have to get
really bad before that happens, but that is a people issue, not a
policy/democratic one.
Ben
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