Re: Question for DPL candidates: delegation
Ian,
> The DPL role is generally thought to be rather large and does seem to
> be subject to burnout.
No doubt! Although as an aside, whilst I can't speak from personal
experience the number of DPLs who have served a second term either
suggests this isn't as severe as you suggest or there is some kind
of Stockholm Syndrome going on… ;)
> Do you intend to make more use of delegation ?
I would have no hesitation in delegating ad-hoc or longer-term tasks
f (for example) someone is better suited to the role than me in terms
of experience, connections or what I will simply refer to here
diplomatically as politics. I don't believe in martyring myself just
for the "kudos" or to control stuff, especially when the results might
be suboptimal for the Project.
Whether this is an formal or informal arrangement would depend on
whether to delegate the responsibility as well.
(Using the outreach initiative as an illustration, it might be more
expedient for someone not of my background to be the figurehead but for
me to retain responsibility for it actually happening. I would make a
public call for such a role, which hopefully answers your other question.)
> Would you look favourably on unsolicited requests from a contributor,
> to have limited powers delegated to them to deal with a matter that
> contributor wants to try to see fixed ?
Did you have a (perhaps throwaway) example in mind we could use? I worry
my response will be overly vague otherwise.
In general, whilst I would encourage such requests, I believe a lot of
what actually can get done in Debian canont be achieved via fiat. It
might actually be highly counterproductive or even damaging to even try
certain avenues. In other words, in most circumstances the request would
likely be redirected to the project as a whole to reach some form of
consensus first.
Regards,
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