Mike Bird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri March 14 2008 19:55:37 Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
>> I suggest that the best way to have good people on the committee is to >> have some process by which one person or group of people get to decide >> that it's time to replace person X with person Y, and not simply wait >> around for person X to resign. >> This is, fundamentally, what distinguishes a democracy from an >> autocracy. > Why not have DDs elect tech committee members? > One possibility would be staggered three year terms with two members > elected each year. The tech-ctte currently forms sort of the judiciary branch of Debian and as currently constructed is a balance of other parts of the governance. In practice, I'm not sure it actually works that way effectively, but the theory at least seems basically reasonable. I don't know if it was originally intended that way, but the current governance does seem to be set up to encourage that. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]