On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 09:38:29AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi> writes: > > On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 05:36:00PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > >> “Dictator” is probably a bad term. See this as a chairman. Someone who > >> can judge when consensus has been reached, and mark a DEP as accepted. > >> This would avoid the countless and boring nitpicks by people who still > >> want to discuss after the consensus has been reached. > > > DEP0 calls these people drivers. Their job is to determine when a rough > > consensus has been reached. > > I think the concern that people have here (and I'm not sure yet whether it > is enough of a concern to warrant creating more administration) is that > the DEP driver is almost certainly going to have a vested interest in the > DEP reaching consensus (otherwise they wouldn't have volunteered to drive > it in the first place), and therefore isn't a great choice for an > impartial judge of consensus if there's some dispute. Other people can also be impartial. We don't need an appointed impartial judge: if the driver declares a consensus, I'm sure those who disagree will say so. Furthermore: YAGNI. Let's not solve problems in the DEP process until and unless we have them, particularly not by making it more bureaucratic and heavy. -- Freedom-based blog/wiki/web hosting: http://www.branchable.com/
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