On Thu, 2018-03-01 at 11:59 +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote: > It seems ftp masters are literally the masters with only a GR powerful > enough to over turn their decisions. See > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=881339#55 This seems correct, from my reading of the Debian constitution. > I do not think this is really in sync with the rest of debian > philosophy. I think the following steps would improve the situation. I disagree with it not being in sync with Debian philosophy. The Debian constitution is quite explicitly written to avoid concentrating power in the hands of a single individual (the DPL), due to unfortunate misuses of power long ago. It follows that power should also not be concentrated into the hands of a small, self-electing group (the technical commitee), either. > 1. If a single ftp master is in disagreement, there should be a team > decision (in previous cases of disagreement also, other team members did > not get involved). I'm not sure this would change the outcomes of ftp-master decisions. From experience, I find the team to have a pretty strong consensus and would not expect the team as a whole to disagree with the decision of a single team member. Overall, I think that's a good thing. It might result in decision being more formally documented, perhaps. That would probably be a good thing. > 2. CTTE should be able to overrule a delegate when there is a conflict > just like conflict between two debian developers. I'm opposed to this. We would need a GR to make this happen, since it would need a change to the constitution. I for one would vote against such a change. (I express no opinion on the root complaint about circular build dependencies and how we handle them.)
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