On Wed, 13 Mar 2019, Bdale Garbee wrote: > Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@debian.org> writes: > > > - it's a position where you are often alone, and lack feedback > > This is true in the limit, but I, and a number of other former DPLs, > have often made ourselves available to the acting DPL to act as a > "sounding board". In fact, I think I've personally provided advice and > guidance at least once to *every* DPL going all the way to Ian Murdock. > So a DPL isn't *completely* alone... but obviously, they are the final > decision maker on anything the constitution leaves to them. +1 FWIW, I have been a supporter of the idea of having a DPL team/board for quite some time[1] and while I won't candidate myself this year, I would be willing to help the next DPL... either through participation in a DPL board that he would want to setup/experiment, or through advice, or through (formal or informal) delegation of some subset of the workload, etc. Hoping that this will motivate someone to step up. I encourage others to offer their help as well so that any DPL candidate has a chance to find a few persons to help them. [1] I was part of teams proposed by DPL-candidates and I candidated twice with the idea of setting up a DPL team: https://raphaelhertzog.com/2006/03/19/revisiting-the-dpl-team-concept/ https://www.debian.org/vote/2007/platforms/hertzog https://www.debian.org/vote/2008/platforms/hertzog Note that the ideas expressed at that time might no longer be 100% relevant now and that if I were doing this again today, it would likely be different. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Support Debian LTS: https://www.freexian.com/services/debian-lts.html Learn to master Debian: https://debian-handbook.info/get/
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