Re: Q for nominees: structural reforms to delegations
Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Quoting Soren Stoutner (2025-03-20 19:35:10)
> > I feel it is appropriate to ask nominees for the DPL what they think
> > about specific issues as well as if they would support specific
> > actions/solutions to problems.
> >
> > At the time of this writing three people have expressed disapproval of
> > the email Branden wrote. I have partially quoted one of them above,
> > but the sentiments of the others are similar, saying that Branden’s
> > email was either a waste of their time or inappropriate. My purpose
> > with this response is just to say that I had the opposite reaction,
> > which was his email was both worth my time and appropriate.
>
> I similarly found the implied question from Branden appropriate, and
hereby second the encouragement for the candidates to express their
opinions on the proposed changes.
I suppose I miss the context behind Branden's question (and behind
other people's reactions). Actually, from an external observer's point
of view, it isn't easy to assess how the Community Team is working,
because most of their activity happens in private for good reason.
Maybe the team should send regular "bits from" mails with some
statistics, e.g., in this month we were contacted by N persons and
reached out to M other persons for reasons X, Y and Z and it went such
and such -- of course all anonymized. But that is really off topic for
DPL election.
What is in topic for DPL election is that, since Community is a
delegated team, if there are issues that suggest that their delegation
should be revised, it would be up to the DPL to act on that. As I
understand, the issue raised by Branden seems to be that there is some
confusion about the actual powers of the team and how they exercise
it. Again, I miss the context to assess whether that is true and how
pressing of an issue it is. Branden (or anybody else) might want to
provide more information.
On the general "no more than one delegation per person" issue, I'm not
aware that this has ever been a problem. Again, Branden might want to
elaborate why he thinks it is.
Gerardo
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