On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 09:46:01AM +0000, Philip Hands wrote: > It does not strike me as obvious that popularity correlates to > competence. Also, it would not be helpful if members of the committee > were tempted to take the popular side of an argument, against their > better judgement, because they were coming to the end of their term, > and they would like to be reelected. +1 All the usual arguments against elected "judges" in democracies apply here, and I'm personally very much against the election of arbitration bodies in general. If anything, the highly technical nature of a project like Debian reinforces those arguments. More importantly, it doesn't seem to me we're near having a concrete GR proposal for electing ctte members. So IMO it would be best to disentangle this discussion from the term limit GR proposal. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . zack@upsilon.cc . . . . o . . . o . o Maître de conférences . . . . . http://upsilon.cc/zack . . . o . . . o o Former Debian Project Leader . . @zack on identi.ca . . o o o . . . o . « the first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club »
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