On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 04:42:22PM -0300, Margarita Manterola wrote: > whoever is delegated by the DPL to do this) goes around imposing > members to teams, or switching members willy-nilly, it would > definitely lead to a lot of frustration and resignations.
I think that's probably fine. ftpmaster did not want Joerg to be promoted, and when he was, without approval of the team, Anthony Towns quit. I think that the common feeling is that this is an improvement. Joerg does more and better work than Anthony did. Was there a better way of handling the situation that would have been less traumatic for everyone involved? Possibly. Would it have been better to stick with the status quo for fear of attrition or bad feelings? I really don't think so. > So, I once again turn the question to you, since this was what I > intended to ask before, but didn't get the reply I wanted. If you > were elected DPL, how would you go about "supervising" team > membership? Well, I am not running for DPL so I have not spent time planning changes that I will not be able to make. I imagine that I would not do very much on day one. The idea of formally re-delegating when the DPL role changes hands appeals to me a bit, but if I were going to only renew all existing delegations for the sake of setting precedent, I am unsure whether that is valuable. In general, I would try to move things in a few directions at once: more people on core teams, less power for core teams, more cooperative atmosphere, more empowerment for the lowly DD. If I thought that someone would be an asset on a core team, or if someone suggested to me that someone else would be an asset on a core team, I would likely explore that option. I would not try to make surprise delegations; the episode with debian-policy tells me that that would not work out well. Depending on the situation, I might ask the target team for feedback, but I would not ask their permission. I absolutely would not allow core teams to invite people, whether they had personal relationships with those people or not. In addition, I think I would probably delegate all DDs to be able to edit the website. It seems clear that I have not convinced anyone who did not already agree with me that making people ask for that access is a bad thing or even significant, but is. It is a bad thing, and it matters. Hopefully this would prove a point. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
