On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 08:31:58PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 13:16:54 -0500, Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> said: > > > No, you're wrong. The mechanism for achieving large-scale archive > > changes isn't presently formally defined at all. Informally, it > > appears to be the exclusive domain of the Debian Archive > > Administrators (who, the last time I checked, were not official > > delegates of the Debian Project Leader[1]). > > > [1] The last time I asked, I got no answer. It's possible the DPL > > made a delegation without announcing it to debian-devel-announce. > > So, the proscription in the SC is the only thing that stands > between an admins whim to remove non-free? I think it's the only formal or structural impediment, yes. But there are other considerations which, I suspect, weigh more strongly: 1) We may have archive admins who don't deliberately attempt to make decisions out of proportion to their authority; 2) We may have archive admins who feel a responsibility to the wishes of the rest of the Project; 3) We may have archive admins who fear that their positions will be formalized, and their powers circumscribed, if they abuse their authority -- and the Golden Age would come to an end. These are, however, purely speculative on my part. -- G. Branden Robinson | Arguments, like men, are often Debian GNU/Linux | pretenders. branden@debian.org | -- Plato http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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