On Mon, Dec 01, 2014 at 02:37:30PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > The TC might be temporarily weakened by having more young members;
While this is conceivable, I don't think it's even remotely likely in practice -- there is a huge pool of brilliant people in Debian to draw from, and the work undertaken by the tech ctte is not so different from everything else in Debian that ctte newbies will be starting from scratch. Likewise, past members of the ctte can still stick their noses in (wanted or not), and the ctte can always informally invite people to help out either for the sake of the help itself, or as a way of helping people get experience in the role -- much like the DPL, the secretary, ftpmaster, release team and DSA already have helpers and assistants [0]. I'm all for planning against all contingencies, I just think it's important to recognise that, for Debian, worries about appointing novices to the technical ctte are at the far end of hypothetical. Even if only to remind the next batch of recruits that they're expected to be hitting the same [1] standards of good judgement and whatnot as current and past ctte members from day one of joining. Cheers, aj [0] Multiple teams in Debian have "assistant" positions, and none of them are called "minions"? Really? No "leader's lackeys", "DSA goon squad", or "ftpmaster flunkies"? Total missed opportunity. [1] (or better) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141202035348.gb11...@master.debian.org