On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 12:06:09AM +0100, Peter Palfrader wrote: >> This brings me to a more general issue: We need a procedure to >> "disown" maintainers. > If you have problems with how a DD maintains his packages bring it > up to the CTTE. From the description, here is what I understood: - Quote constitution: The Technical Committee may ask a Developer to take a particular technical course of action even if the Developer does not wish to; this requires a 3:1 majority. For example, the Committee may determine that a complaint made by the submitter of a bug is justified and that the submitter's proposed solution should be implemented. The CTTE will make only technical decisions, of the kind "Yes, the maintainer did that wrong, we overrule him and say it should be that way". It will never, even after having overruled him numerous times, declare the maintainer unfit. It is not within its powers / roles. - Quote webpage of CTTE: The committee is only empowered to make technical decisions. If you feel that someone has been misbehaving, the committee probably can't help you much. You may wish to talk to the Project Leader, leader@debian.org So, for things like "this maintainer closes bug reports without reading them", we should contact the DPL? Oh yes, this falls within his powers as per "Make any decision for whom noone else has responsibility.". So, yes, we have a procedure, namely "the DPL decides". I still think this kind of grave decisions should be more distributed. -- Lionel
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