On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 02:01:47PM -0700, Chris Waters wrote: > Frankly, as someone who is looking into setting up a support team for > some debian packages, I am appalled at the notion that the DPL can > dictate who can and can't be a member of my team. Ugh; that's not what's happening here at all. The DPL can't force anything at all, merely talk to the people involved; in this case, the d-i team have been, in my opinion, extremely open to comments and I think if I were to come to the conclusion that Sven should rejoin the team, would seriously consider the reasoning I offered. On the other hand, I may have that impression only be because I haven't suggested anything particularly objectionable to them at this point. The technical committee is (theoretically) empowered to overrule developers' decisions like this against their wishes; but are generally pretty reluctant to do so. You can reasonably look at this as a mediation attempt to help two parties who disagree come to a mutually agreeable settlement, or you can look at it as a third party making a reasonable recommendation for a compromise, but it's not remotely a matter of dictating a result, even if that's how it might come across. Cheers, aj
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