On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 04:50:26PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 01:41:35PM +0000, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> > If the latter, do you propose (as they would be your delegates) to make
> > any changes to the current make-up of the committee.
>
> The Technical Committee are not delegates of the Project Leader. They are
> an independent body. Section 6 of the Debian Constitution[1] details their
> powers and appointment.
Private mail has compelled me to make a clarification here.
I appear to have in fact misterpreted Constitution §5.1:
The Project Leader may:
1. Appoint Delegates or delegate decisions to the Technical Committee.
The Leader may define an area of ongoing responsibility or a specific
decision and hand it over to another Developer or to the Technical
Committee.
Once a particular decision has been delegated and made the Project
Leader may not withdraw that delegation; however, they may withdraw
an ongoing delegation of particular area of responsibility.
However, nowhere within §6 are the members of the technical committee
referred to as "delegates". That caused my confusion.
It is true, though, that the the Project Leader's power to appoint
personnel to the Technical Committee is limited in a unique fashion
compared to other delegates (with the exception of the Project Secretary).
It is not the general case that the Project Leader can install whomever he
or she wants on the Technical Committee. Rather than quoting all of §6.2
here, I invite interested people to read it[1].
I had always interpreted §5.1 as "Nominate Developers to...", but that is
not what it in fact means. In fact, procedurally, it does appear to be the
case that the only way the Project Leader can remove members from the
Technical Committee is to terminate their status as a Delegate in that
capacity (see §8.2).
I apologize for my confusion.
[1] http://www.debian.org/devel/constitution
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