On 12/11/15 at 08:47 +1300, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Allison Randal <[email protected]> [2015-10-21 09:16 +1300]: > > I'm good with that description from 2011. No idea how we ended up > > where we are today from that point, it was so sane and sensible. > > IIRC: The 2011 delegation stems from efforts to help make DebConf > recognised as an official Debian event, hence integrating it into > the Debian chain-of-commands. You'd have to ask Zack for detailed > background. > > Zack's delegation was succinct and wise. However, even though it > didn't give explicit decision-override or veto powers, it made three > people responsible towards the project, which had much the same > effect as giving them more weight in decisions than others. > > Since then, we've seen a spectrum of problems, from the team unable > to make decision constantly deferring to the chairs and burning them > out, to there being a divide between chairs and some of the team, > bringing focus to the powers attributed by the more explicit > delegation put forth by Lucas.
Note that you have the timeline a bit wrong: Zack's text was in effect from 2011 to 08/2014, so that covered the DC13 organization, which I think you are referring to with: > the team unable to make decision constantly deferring to the chairs > and burning them out The updated text from me was a response to those problems, to hilight the overseeing/monitoring/advisor role of chairs rather than the "debconf leader that should decide about everything" role that the debconf team seemed to have used chairs for. Lucas _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
