Re: NEDD for a policy manager
Hi,
>>"Ted" == Ted Whalen <tew@debian.org> writes:
Ted> Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> I think if we ratify the constitution, we can get the tech
>> committee to take over the policy managers job. One of the
>> objections people had was that the policy manager was one lone
>> individual, and they felt that they were at the whims of that
>> individual. The tech committee is supposed to be made up of people
>> who have displayed a modicum of technical competence, and they are
>> not individuals either.
Ted> I've generally found that rudderless committees lead to impasse.
Ted> Perhaps if we redesignate the 'policy manager' the 'policy
Ted> chairman'. Moving the position away fron definition of policy
Ted> and final decision making and towards /leadership/ of the policy
Ted> group. Groups without well-defined leaders, without people who
Ted> set and enforce an agenda, tend to sit around and bicker. (cf
Ted> debian-devel) If we're going to have an anarchy, let's at least
Ted> designate a 'chief anarchist'.
Have read the constitution? If the technical committee is
rudderless, we have a serious problem.
Secondly, the tech committee has a chairman. There are well
defined procedures for conflict resolution in the committee. So most
of your objections are groundless where it comes to this proposal.
manoj
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