On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 11:40:11AM +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: > If you > can't decide between me an another candidate who is more committed, rank > me lower on your ballot. So far that's not looking likely... If anyone's tossing up whether to nominate or not, here's some thoughts to consider: - the DPL is the only person who can spend Debian's money (at SPI and elsewhere) -- upgrades/repairs to hardware, travel expenses, booths at conferences etc; without a responsive DPL, those things start falling apart - the DPL is often the preferred person to give talks/interviews about Debian, especially straight after being elected - campaigning's often been adversarial, but there's no reason for it to be -- you don't have to write rebuttals or say why your fellow nominees suck; and whoever wins can easily share some/all of their responsibilities with other candidates - sharing DPL duties with other candidates is a bit easier than just doing it with random people, because the rest of Debian's had a chance to review them and express their opinion -- you know what areas they're interested in, you know how they'll deal with complaints on lists, and you have a fair idea if they're going to be controversial - ex-DPLs are often available to offer advice and suggestions about how to do things; it's always the current DPL's choice how to act, but you don't have to go it alone - having more candidates gives us a chance to review more ideas for what to do over the next year -- even if they don't get done by the DPL (or at all) - we've got a release coming up during the next term, having one or more DPL candidates who've already committed to doing what they can to support the RM team and make sure it actually happens would at least make me more comfortable If you only care about one part of DPLing, and are hoping whoever gets elected will too, I'd personally suggest you nominate yourself now with that as your platform -- if you end up winning, you can always delegate all the other bits to your cohorts; if you end up losing, the winner's probably at least addressed your issue, and if not at least it'll be clear if the project thinks it's a good idea to delegate that bit of DPLing to you. Cheers, aj
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