Martín Ferrari writes ("Re: Technical committee resolution"):
> Ok, I was thinking and speaking about limiting hats in a context of
> doing it project-wise, not only to the ctte. Sorry for the confusion.The TC is in fact the very worst place to be thinking about limiting the number of other hats of its participants. This is because the TC needs to make the most technically complex and politically difficult decisions with the lowest standards of review. That's its job. What that means is that it is very important that the TC has the very best people on it. But it is a fact of life - particularly in a volunteer project like Debian - that the best people are often the very same people who are doing the most other stuff. Obviously that means those people have rather less time on their hands. I think this is the main cause of the TC's current largely-wedged state, and I think it could be solved by widening the circle of people so that less is demanded from each one. (This argument is similar to the one which says that TC members shouldn't recuse themselves from a decision or discussion just because they had already formed an initial opinion on the matter before it came to the TC.) Ian.
