Re: Giacomo A. Catenazzi 2010-09-14 <[🔎] 4C8F40BE.9050102@debian.org> > I don't understand the procedure. You are already empowered to do it: > > 8.1 The Project Leader's Delegates: > 1. [...] > 2. may make certain decisions which the Leader may not make > directly, including approving or expelling Developers or > *designating people as Developers who do not maintain packages*. > This is to avoid concentration of power, particularly over > membership as a Developer, in the hands of the Project Leader. Also: 3. Individual Developers 3.2. Composition and appointment 1. Developers are volunteers who agree to further the aims of the Project insofar as they participate in it, and who maintain package(s) for the Project or do other work which the Project Leader's Delegate(s) consider worthwhile. > So you are already free to do it by delegating. A GR would be used > to overrule your decision, but, as you already noted, there is > already a general consensus on the issue. Yes. The GR "just" asks the project to embrace the idea. Last time, we tried to do something in this direction, it ended up unpleasantly. (Which was also our fault.) > The decision could do a title on the news, but in reality the real > and practical effects are IMHO minimal. Let's hope so :) Christoph -- cb@df7cb.de | http://www.df7cb.de/
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