Please! Not now! I absolutely think that accountability and transparency for a couple of delegated teams --and really for delegations in general--needs to be one of the big issues for the next DPL. I think that's true whether it is me or someone else.
Our delegates put a lot of time and energy into the project. We need to find ways that the project can understand what is going on and give feedback. When the project needs things different than the delegates are able to provide, we need a way to move forward--possibly changing the delegation, possibly understanding why we won't be able to meet a project need. We need to do that all while respecting people, not micro managing them, and while making taking on adelegated responsibility something people want to do. Right now, though, many of the people who could facilitate that discussion are under incredible stress and are spending all the Debian time they have and then some. I know I don't have time to help with this. I know at least one ftpmaster is fairly concerned about unrelated issues. Two others are quite busy with some of the stuff that is eating my time. The community team is busy. While they wouldn't have a formal role, it would be great to get people involved who could help us work together. We're still recovering from the systemd vote. And we haven't yet begun to make progress on the healing from conflict issues I I brought up in the last two bits mails. I appreciate the frustration; there was a fairly long project thread on this too. Deciding this needs to happen right now...well, it's going to be very hard on people who are probably already under a lot of stress. --Sam