Re: More votes in Debian? Any idea for improvement?

2012-03-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Stefano Zacchiroli writes: > On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 04:19:46PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> I'm sure that's a large part of it, but I think people also avoid doing >> this because it means not making decision by consensus. When some >> central body hands down a decision, it almost guarantees t

Re: More votes in Debian? Any idea for improvement?

2012-03-20 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 04:19:46PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Stefano Zacchiroli writes: > > But in our practices, we tend to rely on the Technical Committee > > only for issues that fall in the broad category of "conflicts" > > (ยง6.1.2 "Decide [...] where Developers' jurisdictions overlap"). >

Re: Gergely and Wouter: on the need of becoming a DPL

2012-03-20 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 07:55:56AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > However, the problem with detailed job descriptions, as it were, is that > you run the risk of having people argue over whether or not something is > their responsibility. This would introduce a conflict. > > In the absense of such

Question to all candidates: In eight years...

2012-03-20 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear candidates, this is the echo of a question asked two years ago in the 2010 campaign. http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2010/03/msg00057.html In addition, do you see major changes happening in the recent or next years, and how do you think Debian should react to them ? Have a nice day,