Re: Questions to candidates
Hi,
Andreas has asked a lot of the questions that I intended to ask as
well, so I only need to amend one question he asked.
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 03:20:16PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> 2. Recently we had some flamewars about concentration of "power" for
> some people inside Debian. While I'm much more relaxed than many
> others and save my time for work instead of fighting flame wars
> I have one certain question here. How do you see the role of
> James Troup in the project?
2a. Do you see the concentration of many important roles on a few
people as a problem? As example, I'd like to name DAM, keyring
maintenance, release management, ftpmaster, listmaster and buildd
coordination. While some of these roles are indeed officially
shared among a team, practice shows that usually there is only one
member of the teams acting publicly, with the others more or less
acting as backup.
Additionally, these teams don't seem to communicate well
internally. Do you see a problem when a request posed to a team is
rejected along the lines of "try again with another member"?
The situation might be influenced as well by the fact that there
are people on multiple important roles in Debian, and these people are
notoriously overworked. Wouldn't it be better to allow only one or two
important roles per person? What would you define an "important
role"?
Will you try to improve this situation during your term of office?
What do you intend to do?
How will you answer if somebody asks you about your opinion on
"Debian being actually run by a cabal of at most six people"?
What would be your answer if somebody would suggest amending the
constitution to move some of the "important roles" from being
delegates of the DPL to being elected by the body of the
developers?
I am asking these questions because I am deeply disappointed with the
way technical, procedural and communicative problems are handled by
the project, and the DPL vote is the only way a mere mortal developer
can influence the distribution of important roles in the Debian
project. Thus, we need your answers to be able to choose the DPL who
will try to solve the problems outlined above, and I surely hope that
the three of you will answer differently ;) .
Thanks for answering.
Greetings
Marc
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