On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 11:00:36AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Hello, > > I've been talking about having a DPL board and I might want to go further > and try the principles out by proposing a DPL board in the upcoming > elections. So I'm explaining here how I expect such a board to work. > Feel free to comment, ask questions and give suggestions on how to enhance > it. > > Composition: > ------------ > * Around 10 members representing if possible the various tendencies that > exist within Debian. 10 people is the best way to ensure nothing ever gets done. That sole number shows that you don't really understand how hard it is to have a leadership with more than one person in it. If you want to imagine such a thing as a DPL team, then, the number of members of the board shall be odd, for obvious voting reasons, and that number shall be less than 5 (and 5 is already big imho). if a DPL Team needs more than 3 people, then there is two possibilities: * most of the DPL team is useless and should not have been here in the first place ; or * the DPL team should have named delegates (a power that the DPL can use, and that he rather use seldomly as a general rule ttbomk) for some local and determinated tasks. Another problem I have with your proposal is about the "puting people from different horizons". You don't have a working team doing that. You can ask people that do not think the same to behave decently in a meeting, or discuss calmly and efficiently on a list or so (yeah yeah, in the real world outside from debian that's possible, I've seen it). But you can't ask such persons to share a chair. That just can't work. If you want to get things done, you must put together a team that is coherent and that share the same goals. Else your proposal is the best way to achieve a wonderfully auto-deadlocked DPL. That could be quite a bit of fun, but well, I think debian has already way enough administration-like inefficiencies not to add yet another one. So _as you describe it_ I think such a DPL Board is a quite bad idea. I've no real position about a DPL Team in general, but this instance is clearly not a thing I'd like to see, for at least the two previous reasons. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O madcoder@debian.org OOO http://www.madism.org
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