On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 04:48:01PM +1100, Pascal Hakim wrote: > Hi, > > Which of the groups/people on [1] do you consider delegates? Why or why not? Formally speaking, I guess only two are. The Release Manager, and the Hardware Donations Manager. Martin can probably tell us if he's made other delegations on that page. > Would you change this? Yes, as I stated in my platform[2]: We need to respect the delegate process, or amend it. I don't think every "particular task" in the Project is the same as maintaining a package. The roles of archive administrator, project keyring maintainer, and project system administrator are important. In practice, we distinguish these roles from that of package maintainer in many ways. They are of particular importance and merit special attention. I do not think they can reasonably be lumped into the same category as the individual package maintainer. They have special powers and should be treated specially. The concept of the delegate in the Constitution was drafted with such roles in mind. That no previous DPL as taken the obvious step is a disappointment to me. [...] I will take the obvious step described in the previous section, and formalize the delegate status of the many important people who do critical work for our project who do not already enjoy delegate status. In the event I cannot do so, or am persuaded that this is a bad idea, I will explain to the entire project why I cannot, and then, if necessary, propose a General Resolution amending our Constitution to reflect the facts of Debian's organization. I think the following roles should be formally delegated: FTP Archives Release Manager Release Manager for "stable" Bug Tracking System Mailing Lists Administration Mailing Lists Archives New Maintainers Front Desk Developer Accounts Managers Keyring Maintainers Security Team [3] Web Pages [3] System Administration LDAP Developer Directory Administrator DNS Maintainer (hostmaster) Hardware Donations Coordinator Accountant It's possible some of the above roles should be condensed into one. > Do you believe the Tech Committee is effective in its role for the > project? I suspect not; as I stated in my platform[2]: I will reactivate the Technical Committee -- which has fallen dormant again -- or amend the Constitution to replace it with a body that works better. That almost a year has gone by with no mail to the list (apart from a test message by Wichert Akkerman), let alone a dispute to resolve, makes me suspect that this body has lost the confidence of the developers. I'd like to work with the members of the Committee that are still interested in serving to see how this body can be improved and revitalized. > [1]: http://www.debian.org/intro/organization [2] http://people.debian.org/~branden/dpl/campaign/2004/platform.xhtml [3] It's probably only necessary to delegate a "head", who then has authority to appoint other members, much as the current Release Manager has appointed deputies. -- G. Branden Robinson | Exercise your freedom of religion. Debian GNU/Linux | Set fire to a church of your branden@debian.org | choice. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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