On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 08:30:03AM +0100, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > I have a question to the candidates: History has shown that DPLs more > or less disappear not too long after their period or at least reduce > their visible efforts immensly. I wonder where you see the reasons for > this trend, what your impression is about it and wether you try to > follow that trend or what you will try to do to not have this happen to > you, too. My guess is that it's a combination of factors. First, if you look at the developer body, I think you'll see that there are very few developers who've been in Debian for more than, say, a decade and are still very active and on the forefront. Being a Debian Developer demands a fair amount of time from people, and it's only normal that one cannot keep up a nearly full-time commitment (in some cases even in parallel to a full-time dayjob) for a whole lifetime. Second, I think you'll agree with me that the chances of someone who's not been part of the project for a very long time (say, only one or two years) to be elected are not the same as those who are active longer, and/or are better known. In other words, people who are DPL are on average already well-known long-time contributors who may run out of time or motivation to work for Debian within a few years. If you combine the two, you'll see why I think that while there does seem to be a correlation between 'is DPL' and 'has a high chance of resigning soon', I do not think there is a causal relationship. While a job that demands a lot of time, like the DPL position, may *speed up* the process of people resigning from the project, I do not think it will *cause* the same. As such, I don't think there's much I can do to prevent it. I know that if there is a day when I feel I cannot motivate myself anymore to work for Debian, I will not stay and stand in the way of people doing work. I love Debian too much to do that. But I don't expect that to happen soon. -- The biometric identification system at the gates of the CIA headquarters works because there's a guard with a large gun making sure no one is trying to fool the system. http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/01/biometrics.html
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