Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> But at the same time, the DAMs are responsible for theirs. It's never >> been disputed that Sven has predictibly shown a certain behavior on the >> lists in the past - and the DAMs chose exactly the option which > >> - did explicitly nothing against the destructive effects of such >> behavior > >> - has the highest probability to provoke it again. > > The DAMs don't have authority over the mailing lists. They were asked to > rule on a question of whether a developer's account should be suspended, > which is what they did. If you think that his mailing list access should be > suspended as well/instead, well, talk to the people in charge of the lists.
I expect from people with central roles in Debian to consider their actions' effects on the whole project, and coordinate with people in other roles if needed. By the way, I think the release team is a really good example how one can do that. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
