On Thursday, June 6, 2024 11:40:15 AM EDT Andreas Tille wrote: > - In the beginning of this year there was a change in the policy of DPT. > I'd like to hear your opinion about: > * The process how it went (possibly with suggestions to do better) > * The final result after a couple of months > (I'm specifically interested also in the opinion of people who were > not happy about the change.)
Personally, I found the entire exercise quite disappointing. I sensed little to no interest from members of the team in trying to understand other perspectives on the proposed policy change. It seemed to me to be an exercise in individuals trying to get what they thought best for themselves with little interest in the consequences of winning the argument. Myself, I would have preferred not to change, but I don't find the change itself a major issue either way. I am mostly disheartened by the lack of interest in trying to find consensus in the team (note that this lack of interest was not exclusively from one side of the discussion or the other, I think it was both). As far as I can tell, they most concrete result is some people left the team. Some packages got picked up by other people, some packages were removed from the team, some packages were orphaned, and some packages were removed from Debian as a result. Any benefit is theoretical as far as I can tell. I have reduced my participation in the team. I have been working my way through packages to see if I was working on them because I want to or because I thought I ought to as a part of being a good team member. I have removed myself from uploaders, transferred packages to other uploaders, and orphaned several packages in the latter case. If someone thinks this change helped anything, I'd be curious to see the data on that supports it. Maybe I just missed it. Scott K
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