Sean Whitton dijo [Fri, Apr 03, 2026 at 10:18:57AM +0100]:
From whatever I have observed in recent DPL tenures, there were no
strong technical driving force, rather facilitating solving technical
issues. I also plan to do similarly during my tenure. For example, I am
a strong supporter of team maintained packages, but that does not mean I
would/should force everyone to quit single maintainer practice. I would
start more conversations around this instead and try to find a solution.
So, I urge everyone to bring to notice the issues that they think are
important for the project so that we can discuss and find some solution.
Per the Constitution, the DPL is meant to provide technical leadership
as well, but as you say, we've somewhat drifted away from that.
I would like to see a return a DPLs leading across all aspects of the
project.
Well, we have had recent DPLs who have worked in reimplementing
socio-technical interpretations in many ways. I do not think a DPL should
worry in being competent enough _across all technical expressions of our
project_ (that would be humanly impossible!), but I am sure a DPL, no
matter their background, will push either for socio-technical inertia in
areas they see fit, or changes in areas they see as problematic...
