On Thu, Sep 05, 2019 at 09:17:59AM +0200, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > Le mercredi, 4 septembre 2019, 23.53:06 h CEST Bill Allombert a écrit : > > On Wed, Sep 04, 2019 at 11:04:57PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > > * Most decisions are not just technical decisions, in many/most cases > > > > > > > > the decisions have answers that are all correct, but it just depends > > > > on the weight of specific trade-offs. How those are weighted depends > > > > heavily on each individual. This also seems rather unfair, as it's > > > > taking the natural and expected biases of a small set of people in > > > > the project and forcing them into the entire project. > > > > > > Honestly, if the answers are all correct and we've been going around in > > > circles since like forever, then having a small team decide that one of > > > these correct answers is now the preferred one and we're going with it > > > (after listening to all the arguments) hardly seems unfair to me. > > > > But then it become a steering committee and not a technical commitee. > > Actually, it seems that the Technical Committee has kinda always been doing > both of these things: arbitration, and steering. The way the TC members are selected is not compatible with taking the role of a steering committee (which need to be properly elected rather than self-selected).
(To avoid misunderstanding, I am not in favor of Debian getting a steering committee. The steering should come from the DPL, who is elected) Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here.
