(Again, campaigning period doesn't start until Sunday. Please feel free to ignore this until then)
This is about the DPL team. Andreas, your platform was quite heavily based on it. Jeroen, I understand that it's something that you were heavily involved in. According to Andreas's platform, it was supposed to: * distribute workload, avoiding burn-out and problems related to real-world unavailability of individual developers; Did this happen? Branden has been fairly noticably absent in terms of providing leadership - queries to [EMAIL PROTECTED] have gone unanswered for long periods of time. * keep regularly in touch with a larger part of the project, to be more proactive about difficulties, and detect them earlier; The DPL team's communication sucked. What would you do differently, and how would you do it? * help build broader consensus by functioning as a 'chair' in Debian; This didn't really happen either, did it? How would you make sure it did next year? * make sure that decisions that need to be made are really made, even though that means to keep track of a lot of things, takes time and perhaps requires to be in multiple places at the same time; What would you say are the most important decisions that were made by the DPL team this year? How many of them could not have been made without the DPL team? * have the most appropriate person be responsible for their areas of expertise. Everyone has unique talents and motivations which make certain tasks more enjoyable for them than for others and lets them deal with them more efficiently. Who were the members of the DPL team? What areas were they responsible for? If you retain the DPL team, would you make any changes? A couple of the implementation details: * The team meets regularly and frequently (weekly, up to 1h), to discuss new issues and review ongoing tasks. This seemed to be dropped pretty quickly. Do you think that was the right decision? * Public minutes of private meetings are made available where discretion allows; likewise, a public agenda is made available in advance listing all non-sensitive agenda items, in order to allow and invite public discussion and public feedback before decisions are made. This never really happened. Do you think that was the right decision? Why did somebody have to notice that DPL team activity reports had stopped some time ago before anybody on the team publically admitted this? -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
