On 12/02/2014 06:13 PM, Jakub Wilk wrote: > This is an interesting proposal. But it's a big change, so I think it > should be thoroughly discussed before I could second it. I agree some discussion would be useful, but seems like it's a lot simpler than all the other noodling with term-limits that has gone on thus far. What kind of thorough discussion would you like to have? It seems like the proposal is simple: * Do away with the Technical Committee entirely. The main questions this raises are: How would we deal with conflicts that would currently be addressed by the TC? Hopefully, the answers would be something like: collaboration and teamwork, negotiation, mediation, and GRs (in that order). Do we believe that those resolution mechanisms would be more or less likely to cause strife within the project (or outside the project) than would resolution by the current TC mechanism? I am grateful to the folks who have stood on the TC and have worked to help adjudicate issues as they've been brought to the committee. It seems likely that this work has come at significant personal cost to those project members. But it's also possible that they were working in an environment that served neither them nor the disputants well. What if we tried to encourage participation and larger project-wide coordination work in other ways? I'd be interested in hearing from (current and former) members of the TC, and from disputants who worked through problems with the TC. What do you think about Clint's proposal? > Also, I'd > prefer to have it as a separate GR than bundled with zack's GR. Why? The goal of Zack's GR seems to be to try to reform things that we think somehow aren't working well within the TC. The current proposals do this by trying to avoid stagnation or incumbency in the TC. Why isn't it acceptable to consider abolition of the TC itself as an option? > * Clint Adams <clint@debian.org>, 2014-12-02, 21:08: >> Anyone want to sanity-check the section numbering? > > Not me! me neither :) --dkg
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