Hi Ansgar, On Wed, Mar 16, 2022 at 10:12 AM Ansgar <[email protected]> wrote: > > You only mention delegates which have a formally easy way to get > replaced: the project leader can just do so.
I limited my statement to delegates because my constitutional powers end there. For other matters, I would be an advocate like you or everyone else. > Do you think that an Appointments Committee should also handle package > maintainership and should we have term limits for how long people can > maintain packages, in particular core packages like gcc, libc, dpkg, > apt, ...? While a project leader cannot charge the Appointments Committee to look at maintainers, the committee is free to make such recommendations. The statements would be political. They exert pressure but have no effect otherwise. Over time, you would witness a separation of powers in Debian. Meetings of the Appointments Committee would be open to the public. Anyone can comment on the proceedings. The committee would follow California's open meeting laws. [1] Personally, I am not sure a term limit for maintainers is appropriate. The idea also falls entirely outside the leader's powers. Please make your case with the Appointments Committee, or apply to become a member thereof. Then you can use the political weight of your office to initiate a referendum. Thank you for the tough question! Kind regards, Felix Lechner P.S. Everyone, please join #meetfelix on OFTC. I hope to get to know you better! [1] https://www.calcities.org/detail-pages/resource/open-public-v-a-guide-to-the-ralph-m.-brown-act
