Hey Laura I'm moving your question to the top since it makes it easier to reply in-line...
> What are your views on this? On 2019/03/29 15:23, Laura Arjona Reina wrote: > Sometimes I feel that having a (single person) DPL role is somehow > harmful for people to get involved in these tasks: > - the elected person gets so squeezed that after their service they just > prefer to focus in other tasks, I agree that an overloaded DPL role can be harmful to both Debian and the individual in the role. I think it's important for a DPL to take a step back every now and again and look at the various properties of the role and ask "Is this working?". If elected, I do plan on filing bugs against the DPL role if I feel that something can do with improvement. Discussion on that topic might result in some form of DPL guidelines document, or in extreme cases a constitutional change. I also support the idea of various support roles and team to the DPL, although I don't think the DPL role should be outright replaced by a team. > - the non-elected get depressed and don't continue contributing > ideas/work to advance Debian in these areas, I think that's a good question! I considered the effects of losing the race right when I decided to jump in, and decided to go in to this with the attitude that even if I lose, the topics that we discuss and explore should be useful to Debian. If I'm not elected I will not consider these weeks wasted time, in fact I have worked on developing some ideas that I will try to take forward either way. At times I've been more concerned about the others than myself in this regard, but I think this year they're all big people and can handle it. > - the watchers just focus on DPL'ship (if they fit or not) and thus the > more granularity in commitment (via the involvement in these teams) is > overlooked. I'm not 100% sure I understand your comment about the watchers, but I think elections can be exciting and can be highly participative, and it can be healthy for a wide range of debianites to come together and think about the future of Debian as we do during times like these. > - the team members may continue overloaded until they decide they just > need a break, and are not sure if all this flourish of ideas is tied to > the DPL role ("having a hat", the "campaign period"...), or the people > contributing to the debates (and the candidates) are motivated enough to > get involved even if they are not elected :-) Also a good point, it seems like there's a spike in ideas during the DPL campaign season and not so much the rest of the time, while in reality any DD can come forward with an idea any time. I think it really just shows that there is more value in the process than just choosing our next head cheerleader, but at the same time as a project, we can probably do more to bring good ideas to the front the rest of the year. If I misunderstood any of your questions and didn't properly answer, feel free to poke :) -Jonathan -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) <jcc> ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian Developer - https://wiki.debian.org/highvoltage ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋ https://debian.org | https://jonathancarter.org ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ Be Bold. Be brave. Debian has got your back.