Bug#636783: TC casting vote
On Fri, 2014-05-23 at 08:32 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> 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.
The solution is simple: Have an odd number of members in the TC. Then no
casting vote is needed at all.
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