Re: Thinking about Delegating Decisions about Policy

[Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>]

On Thu, Sep 05, 2019 at 09:17:59AM +0200, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote:
> Le mercredi, 4 septembre 2019, 23.53:06 h CEST Bill Allombert a écrit :
> > On Wed, Sep 04, 2019 at 11:04:57PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > > >   * Most decisions are not just technical decisions, in many/most cases
> > > >   
> > > >     the decisions have answers that are all correct, but it just depends
> > > >     on the weight of specific trade-offs. How those are weighted depends
> > > >     heavily on each individual. This also seems rather unfair, as it's
> > > >     taking the natural and expected biases of a small set of people in
> > > >     the project and forcing them into the entire project.
> > > 
> > > Honestly, if the answers are all correct and we've been going around in
> > > circles since like forever, then having a small team decide that one of
> > > these correct answers is now the preferred one and we're going with it
> > > (after listening to all the arguments) hardly seems unfair to me.
> > 
> > But then it become a steering committee and not a technical commitee.
> 
> Actually, it seems that the Technical Committee has kinda always been doing 
> both of these things: arbitration, and steering.
  
The way the TC members are selected is not compatible with taking the role
of a steering committee (which need to be properly elected rather than
self-selected).

(To avoid misunderstanding, I am not in favor of Debian getting a
steering committee. The steering should come from the DPL, who is
elected)

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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