On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 12:08:45PM +0200, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: > during the last DPL voting period, a question [1] about the current > length of the DPL period came up. This topic was also discussed during > recent DebConf11. > > While I do not want to come up with a change of the constitution at this > point, I would like to hear a broader opinion on that topic. > > And while i was looking on our constitution, i found it doesn't say any > given procedure if a DPL wants to step down. Kurt said to me during > DebConf11 that, if that happens, he will immediately start an election > process. Still i think, this should be clarified in the current > constitution. I feel I should point you to <http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2007/08/msg00079.html>, in which I presented the results of my asking ex-DPLs (at the time) whether they thought increasing the time of the DPL term was a good idea. Short answer, paraphrased: "hell no". -- The volume of a pizza of thickness a and radius z can be described by the following formula: pi zz a
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