On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 09:55:31AM +0200, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: > Could you please explain, why this is a flaw?
I think that I should do that, but first let me quote the "Comments" section of the delegation text, as it was precisely my attempt at explaining that: > The ability to change DMUP is meant to allow the document to evolve > with the addition of new services, technologies, security needs and > procedures, etc. > > The first proposed limit to what can be changed by DSA is meant to fix > a "flaw" in the current text. Decisions over Debian membership are > already a responsibility of DAM and, especially considering the need > of changing the DMUP, it is better not to mix that responsibility with > DSA (as a paranoid mind can imagine DSA changing DMUP *precisely* to > have a specific developer expelled ...). Note that this limit means > that the current DMUP text is outside the rules and should hence be > fixed ASAP. The full context (also discussing the ability the project have to counter the risk of DSA-going-mad :)) is at [1]. If that is not deemed to be clear enough or satisfactory, I'm happy to clarify any additional doubt that people might have. Cheers. [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2010/04/msg00016.html -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Dietro un grande uomo c'è ..| . |. Et ne m'en veux pas si je te tutoie sempre uno zaino ...........| ..: |.... Je dis tu à tous ceux que j'aime
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