On Sun, Jan 04, 2026 at 08:14:33PM +0100, Daniel Gröber wrote: > Hi Bart, > > On Sat, Jan 03, 2026 at 01:38:24AM +0100, Bart Martens wrote: > > > Looking at the current delegation text this smells like a burnout job to > > > me > > > (definition: high expectation + low control). > > > > On the other hand, some volunteers might prefer a role of identifying > > possible improvements without any (legal) responsibility on decisions and > > prioritizing implementations. > > Good point. However given how open Debian is anyone that wants to do this > can already do this. Just talk to people! Post ideas to the debian-project > list, maybe form an informal team and take it from there. No need for a > delegation to get started.
It is hard to convince our fellow-DDs all over the project to erase personal data from their systems without a formal delegation from the DPL. > > I'd look at the delegation as helping lower Andreas' workload on the > official side of things. > > > > - How many GDPR inquiries did the existing team receive in the last year? > > > (or month if that's easier to check) > > > > I think it's much more than dealing with inquiries. There should be > > people [...] > > Are you volunteering? :-) Maybe. > > Its easy to say we should have people with motivation, but rather harder to > make the people and motivation actually materialize. It's why I wrote "maybe". :-) For example, "carnivore" is likely still processing personal data in ways that Debian does not really need, so must not have. I might some day find the time to have a look at it. (I'm careful with making promises in volunteering work.) > > What I'm proposing is to look at what the people doing the work need to be > effective at doing the work: Is it know-how, is it delegated decision > power, is it knowing the right people in the project? (etc). Sounds like a useful task! > > Once we know what it is they need such a delegation is much more likely to > be effective. > > --Daniel > > PS: I did a quick search for context on the history of the team: > > - DebConf25 BoF - which has no recording or meeting notes :( > Did anyone reading this attend and can share a quick summary? > > https://debconf25.debconf.org/talks/224-the-data-protection-team-status-and-future/ > > - 2024 DPL election: Question to all candidates: GDPR compliance review > https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2024/04/msg00024.html > > - DebConf22 BoF - has a recording! > > https://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2022/DebConf22/debconf22-215-state-of-the-data-protection-team.webm
