Re: [all candidates] DPL term duration

2013-03-14 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le jeudi, 14 mars 2013 13.00:09, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud a écrit : > As I see it, one way to do that (which has certainly been proposed already) > would be to have a sort-of "DPL guild"⁰. It would have these properties¹: > (…) Damn, I just realised all candidates already addressed the wider "board" i

Re: [all candidates] DPL term duration

2013-03-14 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Hi Moray, hi all, Le mardi, 12 mars 2013 21.24:15, Moray Allan a écrit : > In my view, if we want to lengthen the term of office for our > leadership roles, which could have beneficial aspects, we should do that > as part of a wider reform that reduces the concentration of roles/power > in a singl

Re: [all candidates] DPL term duration

2013-03-13 Thread Gergely Nagy
Russ Allbery writes: > Moray Allan writes: > >> However, the DPL role for a single year is already a big commitment, >> taking a lot of energy and time (typically including a lot of the time >> that person previously spent in other areas of Debian). Already many >> people who would perform the

Re: [all candidates] DPL term duration

2013-03-13 Thread Gergely Nagy
Gunnar Wolf writes: > One of the difficulties I perceive we have seen over the years is the > time it takes to transfer the know-how and work rhythm from an > outgoing DPL to an incoming one. Several of our DPLs have repeated > their term. In the past, when I was a new DD, there was this strange

Re: [all candidates] DPL term duration

2013-03-12 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi, On 12/03/13 at 11:35 -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > I'm writing this prompted by some of the lines written by Gergely and > Moray in the "about a DPL board" thread. > > One of the difficulties I perceive we have seen over the years is the > time it takes to transfer the know-how and work rhythm

Re: [all candidates] DPL term duration

2013-03-12 Thread Russ Allbery
Moray Allan writes: > However, the DPL role for a single year is already a big commitment, > taking a lot of energy and time (typically including a lot of the time > that person previously spent in other areas of Debian). Already many > people who would perform the role well choose not to run du

Re: [all candidates] DPL term duration

2013-03-12 Thread Moray Allan
On 2013-03-12 20:35, Gunnar Wolf wrote: In the past, when I was a new DD, there was this strange and sad tendency that after finishing their DPL term, DPLs tended to leave the project (or strongly reduce their involvement) — I *think* there is some correlation with the DPL task pickup burnout tim

[all candidates] DPL term duration

2013-03-12 Thread Gunnar Wolf
I'm writing this prompted by some of the lines written by Gergely and Moray in the "about a DPL board" thread. One of the difficulties I perceive we have seen over the years is the time it takes to transfer the know-how and work rhythm from an outgoing DPL to an incoming one. Several of our DPLs h