Le jeu 21 septembre 2006 03:30, John Goerzen a écrit :
> On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 02:26:19AM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
> > The debate has been launched on -private, but it's clear to
> > everyone that we were very far from a consensus[2]. So, instead of
> > *beeing consistent* with the *consensus* of the opinions, a so
> > called "external" structure has been launched. Onboard, we see many
> > very well known
>
> You know, this is far from the first time a situation like this has
> happened.
>
> Some others, none of which caused proposals like this to occur,
> included:
>
> * Ubuntu is funding Debian developers due to a disagreement about
> direction, emphasis, and release practices. A very real fork,
> yet with many common developers with Debian.
>
> * Progeny funded Debian developers working on alternative Debian
> installers, configuration tools, and a host of other items and was
> led at the time by none other than the founder of Debian (Ian
> Murdock). Many of Progeny's employees were and are Debian
> developers, with a former DPL (Branden) among them.
>
> * Bruce, a former DPL, being involved with a venture capital firm
> that funded Debian developers.
>
> * Debian itself donated $1000 to the Gnome project to fund its
> development due to a dispute with KDE over Qt licensing.
> I don't recall this coming with strings such as "can't be spent on
> programmer time". So there is even precedent for the project
> doing this sort of thing.
just let me rephrase it then.
1. The DPL is the one that appoints the RM as per constitution
2. The DPL is deeply in a structure that has supposedly nothing to do
with Debian, hence does its own choices, without needing any sort of
Debian approval.
3. That structure wants to pay the RM's.
that's a big conflict of interest. It's IMHO a major fault coming from a
delegate (and especially the DPL) to take a role in such an
organisation. It's just not compatible.
If aj's stops beeing a member of dunc-tank, and do not works publicily
for that dunc-tank, then I remove my second here, he can stay as DPL.
If he prefers dunc-tank, and work for it, he must not be a delegate
anymore, and especialy not DPL.
For me, it's not a vote for or against dunc-tank. I'm against it under
its current form, but there is nothing I can do about it. It's a vote
about a conflict of interest between the position of beeing the DPL,
and taking part into dunc.
It's not a recall vote against Mr Towns, it's a recall procedure to ask
him to make a choice between two uncompatible tasks.
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