Hello, On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 08:14:22AM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > I had to look up Neil McGovern to find out what "status" he has in the Debian > organization. IIUC, he was the DPL (I guess I learned an acronym) in > something like 2015, and he may now be the executive director of GNOME. > > Does he have some current status in Debian that would make his thoughts any > more of indicative of the intentions of Debian than anyone else?
There are some very strange assumptions being made in the above text about the decision-making processes of Debian. I have no idea why you would just imagine that huge sections of project infrastructure could be torn down and replaced based on the wishes of one person, even if you started off with having no idea about how it's actually done. Clearly in a project the size of Debian that sort of behaviour just wouldn't scale. Briefly and broadly: Debian makes decisions based on rough consensus, with some areas of responsibility delegated to teams. When a decision has to be made and consensus can't be found, sometimes things are referred to the Technical Committee, or sometimes they are put to a General Resolution (a vote). If you're interested in watching Debian make decisions then I think it would be best to subscribe to the debian-project mailing list. It sometimes is not very pretty - maybe the saying about watching sausages being made applies here. It does not matter if someone is a highly esteemed Debian developer and DPL emeritus; if they try to push through a change that is controversial and ignore dissent then someone will call a GR and then the proponent has 1 vote just like every other eligible Debian voter. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting