Re: Kill the DPL! (Elections are almost over)

[Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>]

Michael Banck wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 01:15:02AM -0600, ean@brainfood.com wrote:
> > The Debian Project Leader should be changed from an elected position to a 
> > yearly award for the most helpfully active Debianer. At the end of the year 
> > we will conduct an online vote and give recognition to the one Debianer who 
> > did the most for the project that year.
> 
> I think this is a great idea.
> 
> However, we should not punish our most accomplished developer with the
> endless tasks the DPL has to undertake (like, keeping flames down,
> writing endless emails to outside parties, seeing that the people inside
> the project work together nicely, etc.), so that this particularly
> valuable developer will be mostly lost for the technical aspects of our
> distribution.
> 
> Instead, we should give this great developer a post which is really fun
> to be in *and* does not involve a lot to do!
> 
> Clearly, we should make him SPI president!

You think it is fun being SPI president?  Poor freak.

> The good thing is that there are also a number of other positions
> available at SPI for whoever comes out second or third in the survey.

Then I'd vote for the treasurer.
But.. *cough* It's no fun either...

Regards,

	Joey

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