On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Josip Rodin wrote: > I also think that a social committee would be a good idea. > Even if unrefined and/or undefined, just the notion of having both > a technical and a social committee would indicate major progress in > our way of thinking.
I like the principle, but IMHO it should just be a DPL board or something similar. Otherwise I really don't see the point of the committee. A good board would integrate people from the various important offices (listmasters, ftpmasters, DSA, security, RM, DAM, ...) but that shouldn't be mandatory. It's much simpler to take important decisions within a board: when you're alone as DPL, you fear taking the wrong decision and end up taking no decision. Within a board, it only needs one person motivated enough to bring an issue to a vote and get a result that is way stronger. With such a team you also have a broader coverage of the Debian community, and potential problems can be discovered more quickly. I blogged on the topic in the past: http://www.ouaza.com/wordpress/2006/09/04/steering-committee-or-board/ > As far as 6.2. Composition is concerned, I would think that the soc-ctte > should be allowed to be rather large, growing comparably to the growth of > the developer body. After all, its emphasis can't really be on leadership, I > would think that we would want to have a decent sample of the developer body > in it. In that case, you need to have decision mechanism that scales accordingly: votes are open for a short period of time (let's say 4 days) and the quorum for a vote ought to be relatively slow because on a large group, you'll have always 1/3rd to 50% who are on business trip, on vacation, busy, whatever. > Maybe the limit should be a third of the election quorum, or > sqrt(number-of-devels)/2? Currently that would be 16 people. I think that's > a good sample of people, and a workable audience for a mailing list (of > soc-ctte). Even if we expand twice in size, that's still just 23 people > (i.e. the ctte would not grow twice as large). I find that number rather large. Around ten people ought be enough. But then I don't mind trying :) I would like if we could bring such a proposition to vote before the DPL election of this year (because of the obvious consequences on the election itself). Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Premier livre français sur Debian GNU/Linux : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
