Mattia Rizzolo: > On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 03:46:05PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote: > > The key question for such a new process is: who will decide ? > > > > It is very tempting to model such a thing on our existing > > constitutional structures. For example, we could create a team like > > DAM, whose job was to take (private) requests for > > mediation/intervention, and who would eventually make some kind of > > decision. > > > > But I would like to make a more radical suggestion. We should make > > these decision by juries, rather than committee. > > > > For each such dispute, we should pick a panel of randomly chosen DDs, > > and have them decide (with a time limit). > > No randomness please. Probably all bodies in Debian are either elected > or appointed (by previously elected bodies). We all know that there are > DD with a known bad track at mediations which would be totally unfit for > such a role.
I think random selection would be a nice idea to try.
Positions of power in Debian probably do not rotate enough for the
health of the project. The recent term limit added to the technical
committee is a move in the right direction, IMHO.
I believe most Debian project members could do well with
responsibilities—and they do when maintaining packages. Million of
people around the world trust us, a “random” body of developers, to take
care of their computers. One of the reason I can think of to explain
this trust is that we have a good set of guidelines of what developers
should be doing. Our users get a pretty consistent experience overall,
even while interacting with different project members.
In my view of Ian's proposal, the randomly selected panel would be given
a set of guidelines on how to make their decisions, a standard process
to come to an agreement, and the ability to consult external parties to
get outside looks.
When we reach the point where arbitration is needed, I'd rather take a
decision that will make some people unhappy for some time rather have no
decision and everyone unhappy forever.
--
Lunar .''`.
lu...@debian.org : :Ⓐ : # apt-get install anarchism
`. `'`
`-
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature
