Charles Plessy writes ("Re: Replace the TC power to depose maintainers"):
> Dear Ian, TC members and everybody,
...
> Dear TC, you have my support, and please feel empowered to require high
> standards from the confronting parties that ask for your decisions, so that
> your task is made easier, for everybody' good.I agree with all of your suggestions. > - Of course, since this requires significant involvement from both > parties, the TC has to protect maintainers from deliberate > obstructions or attempts to suck up their time and demotivate > them with TC procedures. To block that kind of "negative > energy", the TC should not hesitate to dismiss a complain if it > is poorly argumented, or if nobody on the complaining side has > time to follow up. I would go further than this. If a petitioner to the TC doesn't show a clear case to answer, the maintainer should not be expected to provide a rebuttal. In general I would prefer it if the TC exercised much firmer case management. (Even if that means telling me to shut up, which I suspect it might well do :-/.) Ian. -- Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> These opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.
