Re: Proposal - Project infrastructure team procedures
On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 20:07:05 +0200, Josip Rodin <joy@entuzijast.net> said:
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 10:02:24AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> I am of the camp that believe that the only power people have in any
>> capacity in Debian flows from the constitution; which means either
>> the powers listed for developers, or as delegates of the DPL. Recent
>> delegation activity seems to bear this out.
> That's the problem - it's supported by recent activity, but not by the
> previous ten or so years.
Maybe it is just me, but using a GR to tell previous DPL's what
they could ahve done seems like a waste of time. We know now DPL's can
and have added people to ftp/dam teams, and now we will have a GR
telliong DPL's that they can do what a DPL has done already, with a
whole lot of little rules for rules lawyers to haggle over.
> You state the problem yourself - the *current* DPL(s) are doing
> *something*, but we don't actually know much about it, or if any of it
> will happen again, or if the next different DPL and his inaction will
> mark the start of another fifteen years of problems...
> One could argue that this pair of DPLs will lead by example, and set a
> standard for all future ones. But has that historically happened, and
> if so will it repeat itself? I don't know. I don't like not knowing,
> when there's a reasonably simple option that can fix that.
And you think a little GR telling DPL's "go ahead -- you can do it!"
is going to make a whit of difference. given the precedent the current
DPL is setting?
You have far more faith in a GR that reaffirms stuff that DPLs
have already done to make a difference about the conduct of future
DPL's.
> This view that GR's are a problem in itself and that we shouldn't do
> them is indicative of the whole situation - nobody thinks that
> calcified teams are a problem so major that they need fixing with a
> big ol' GR, so the status quo can freely persist, for years at a time.
Strawman. The calcified teams have been added to, and even more
is being worked on, and a "Yes, we can" GR seems like a redundant,
time wasting exercise of bureaucratic zeal to me.
> In essence, this is analogous to the real-world issue of people not
> thinking that some general problem is their problem, and nothing much
> gets done before someone takes the plunge and does a more
> revolutionary thing. Whereas, in the more organized societies, people
> use the mutually agreed upon (constitutional) processes to create
> procedures which avoid major problems before they escalate.
Had nothing been done, you might have had a point. As such, this
is just make work.
However, feel free to go ahead with make-work; we do need to
fill up the vote page with more than just DPL votes, and I'll happily
run GR's.
What's next, a GR determining the favourite color of the Debian
collective?
manoj
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