> ===BEGIN > > The Technical Committee recommends that David Bremner <bremner> be > appointed by the Debian Project Leader to the Technical Committee. > > A: Recommend to Appoint David Bremner <bremner> > B: Further Discussion > > ===END I vote B > A My vote is not a comment on any specific candidate. As I've examined this process, I've grown increasingly uncomfortable with it. One thing worked better this year than any year I've previously been involved in: the TC got a larger pool of nominees to choose from. Unfortunately, for me, that underscored some deeper problems in the process. * For the most part, the TC is choosing based on name recognition. Private discussion within the TC suggested this is how some members were making their decisions. That's not an approach that lends itself to increasing diversity or to building the best organization. * The TC doesn't have information (and doesn't seem to know how to get information) to do better than name recognition plus a brief search of contributors.debian.org. I don't know how to solve this. * The TC takes too long. The time from when people are nominated to when the election results come out is enough to sap the joy and interest from potential candidates. People join the TC burned out. It goes down hill from there. I look forward to serving with David, and if anything this year's process may be slightly better than previous years. That said, I just couldn't bring myself to affirmatively support this process. I am not trying to block the process. If this were a consensus action not a vote, my approach would be to "stand aside," rather than to "block" or "be part of the consensus."
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