On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 09:46:04AM +0100, Gergely Nagy wrote: > The DPL already has the power to delegate tasks. I do not see how > electing more than one person would help with sharing the work: if it > can be shared, it is already possible to do so.
Hey, that's a good question. How /is/ electing more than one person different to electing one person and letting them delegate? Here's some ways: - no single point of failure (if the DPL disappears, there aren't new delegations) - delegates don't have authority of their own, and the DPL can just undelegate them; so an elected position is "more impressive" than a delegated one, and you can maybe do more impressive things with it? - delegates tend to have specific, well-defined powers/responsibilities while the DPL position can be used for lots of things (mediation, inspiring speeches, handing out money, setting roadmaps, negotiating with partner organisations, ..) - if one person goes off in a weird direction, it's easy to throw them out and choose someone different; if a whole bunch of people do, getting rid of all of them can be harder > Electing more people would also overcomplicate the process. So if one elected person and delegates is better for the DPL, shouldn't that apply to the tech ctte too? Just appoint a chair and let them pick half a dozen folks to help out. > The only situation I can imagine that may work better than the status > quo, if people nominated themselves together, as a team. That would be > interesting to see, how it works. (That seems more or less a description of party politics, at least in the Westminister system) Cheers, aj -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
