Re: Call for seconds: Delegate to the DPL
Le Fri, Nov 24, 2023 at 07:38:40PM +0200, Jonathan Carter a écrit :
> Hi Bill
>
> On 2023/11/24 19:14, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > I offer the following ballot option for your consideration.
> >
> > ----- GENERAL RESOLUTION STARTS -----
> >
> > The Debian developers delegate to the Debian Project Leader the task of issuing
> > a Public Statement about the 'EU Cyber Resilience Act and the Product Liability
> > Directive' that addresses Debian interests in the matter.
> >
> > ----- GENERAL RESOLUTION ENDS -----
>
> I follow your logic in proposing this, although my interpretation of
> ¶5.1.4[0] in our constitution leads me to believe that the DPL does not need
> any delegation for this, so perhaps the intention becomes more of "Let the
> DPL decide".
I agree with you on that point, but note that what matters
constitutionaly is that the DDs via the GR process has authority to do
it, and so have also the authority to delegate it, even to someone who
would otherwise have this authority.
The point of this ballot option is to differentiate from 'NOTA' which
can be interpreted as precluding from issuing a statement.
> In February I posted[1] about the CRA to debian-project[1]. My intention was
> to get a few good people to spend some time to focus on this, since my
> available bandwidth for this was low (and continued to be since then).
>
> I'm not sure that it's a good idea to leave it as a DPL task, it might delay
> an actual public statement by a month or even more. That said, I'm not
> completely against the idea, if this ends up happening I would likely
> combine the best current ideas in an etherpad and invite everyone to list
> and hammer out any remaining issues.
My view is that when drafting such statement, we should always keep in
mind what is its purpose. If it is to be read by the EU regulators, it
should be written by someone knowing their legal languages.
Cheers,
--
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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