Hi,
Anthony Towns ends up his announce[1] about dunc-tank.org with these
two paragraphs:
The first article[2] on the topic's already been
published; with one somewhat inaccuracy - this is not a
Debian project, and is being specifically handled outside
of Debian to both ensure that any conflict of interest
that might occur can be decided by Debian in Debian's
favour, and to allow other groups that have different
ideas about what priorities are important to encourage
contributions to those areas.
A question that has been raised is whether the
organisation can be sufficiently "outside" of Debian when
the DPL is intimately involved. I don't have the answer
to that - in my opinion it can be, but whether this one is
will be up to Debian to decide.
The article's title mentioned in the first paragraph is: "Debian
experiments with funding group to release 'etch' on time". Even
if Anthony Towns and other Dunc-tankers claim that their project
is not affiliated to Debian, external people will still see this
project as being handled by the Debian Project Leader, and thus
implicitly by the Debian project.
But we, Debian developers, can make this confusion vanish, and I
would like to propose that we answer to the valid question quoted
in the second paragraph above by recalling our Project Leader, as
allowed by our Constitution (section 4.1.1) and am seeking seconds
for this proposal.
Denis Barbier
[1] http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/blog/2006/09/19#2006-09-19-omg
[2] http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1964607233;fp;4194304;fpid;1
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