On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 11:37:53AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > - more momentum to the leadership: clearly a single leader is swamped with > administrivia and even the addition of a 2IC didn't let Anthony finish > his first proposal (about giving single-package upload rights to some > people which don't want to become full DD but want to maintain just one > or two packages)
Ack, that could be good, and in that respect, one or two more people is good. It's quite hard to estimate from a non-DPL point of view how loud the pressure is. Mabye past DPL's could give some insight about this ? > - better decision taking: when you have a big discussion, it's difficult to > take a > decison alone, you take the sole responsibility of it... whereas when > you're 10 which are deciding, it's easier to assume the outcome. hrm, if you really need "help" to take a decision, 3, or 10 is not better than 1. the DPL does not needs a DPL team to discuss a decision, he has the secretary, the tech-ctte when it's technical, the rm's when it's related to the release, etc… And if it's _that_ controversal, then a discussion among all the developers has to take place anyway, and 3 5 10 or 40 people in the DPL Team can't change that (at least in the current wording of the constitution, that says that the DPL should follow a consensual leadership). > - better respect of the leadership: if you don't like the leader, it's > easy to dismiss any of its decision, I think recent history showed that's not true. > but if you have 6 people in the board that you respect and 4 that > you don't trust too much, you're more likely to accept the outcome > of a given decision. I don't see how that's true, or you have a really biased way to accept decisions. I accept decisions based on their inherent qualities, not based on whom decided them. So to me this argument is scurvy. > It's also a form of leadership that fits better our own internal workings.. > If a board member goes MIA, we still have 9 others who are there. If a DPL knows he's unreliable he should be the first one to find succession, or even not nominate himself in the first place. MIA developers are enough of a shame to not even dare to suppose a DPL can go MIA. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O [EMAIL PROTECTED] OOO http://www.madism.org
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