Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 06:18:37PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
>> 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. > That is a fallacy - even if we assume that tech-ctte contains the "very > best people" of Debian as a whole, and that's an unsufficiently > supported assumption at that, we don't actually know with anywhere near > the sufficient amount of certainty that they are the best people for > committee membership. > > And that is orthogonal to the issue of the lack of time, which stands on > its own. I do agree with Ian, however, that the tech-ctte is one of the worst examples for limiting hats for a slightly different reason: the tech-ctte needs to make decisions for the project that the project can then implement. Yes, this has been a weakness already, but one way in which that could be addressed is by having *more* tech-ctte members who are on core teams so that they can go make the resolution happen. For an entirely theoretical example, if the tech-ctte were to make a decision about what software is acceptable to include in the archive and Jeorg were on the tech-ctte, I think it would be more, not less, likely that the decision would then be implemented. It's not the only way to solve that problem, but having the tech-ctte members also be natural liaisons to other key parts of Debian is potentially very helpful. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]