Re: Resignation as cloud team delegate

[Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>]

On 6/1/22 06:57, Noah Meyerhans wrote:
> On Tue, May 31, 2022 at 09:30:54PM -0700, Ross Vandegrift wrote:
> > Effective today, I'm resigning as cloud team delegate.  I started a new job,
> > and am no longer eligible due to our conflict of interest prohibition.  Since
> > very little of my cloud team work required delegation, I don't plan on changing
> > my involvement.  I've had less time for Debian in recent months, but hope
> > that'll change in the future.
>
> Thanks for your work in the past, Ross, and congratulations on the new
> job.
>
> I think now might be a reasonable time to suggest that we revisit our
> ban on allowing DPL delegates to work for cloud providers.  The
> rationale for it is a concern over potential conflicts of interest,
> which is entirely valid.  However, experience over the past several
> years has provided ample evidence that the opportunities for such
> conflicts of interest to actually impair the judgement of a delegate are
> very rare.

Yeah. And probably also because the past delegate were smart enough to 
take this into account, and moderate themselves.

> As long as a delegate's relationship to their employer is
> known ahead of time, that delegate can recuse themselves from any
> specific decision making process that may be influenced by their
> employer.

I would trust Ross to do that when needed.

> I believe that people who work for a cloud service provider are likely
> to represent some of the most enthusiastic and knowledgeable members of
> our community on cloud related topics.  Excluding them from
> consideration for our DPL delegations removes key members from our pool
> of candidates for this role and does not provide any benefit that can't
> be attained using less drastic measures.
>
> noah

Agreed. Ross, can you reconsider? Johnathan, your thoughts?

Cheers,

Thomas Goirand (zigo)