On 22/05/14 at 10:14 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 03:56:26PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > We have had some discussion about this. No-one seems to have objected > > to the suggestion that the DPL, rather than the TC chairman, should > > have a casting vote in TC decisions. > > > I'm therefore intending to roll this up into my TC GR(s). > > I don't recall seeing this discussion. I don't agree that this is a good > structural change, for similar reasons to Tollef. Same here. Additionally: 1/ it would feel quite strange if the DPL suddenly had to dig deeply into a controversial issue at the end of the voting period, without taking part in the earlier technical discussion. 2/ the DPL is not chosen using the same criteria as the TC members, and we may very well have a DPL that is not trusted by the project for his/her technical skills. So it would mean turning a technical decision into a political one. 3/ a recent GR (the code of conduct one) showed that Developers were not big fans of the idea of deferring out-of-the-usual-scope decisions to the DPL. Lucas
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