Le Wed, 12 Nov 2014 15:29:27 -0200, Andre N Batista <andrenbati...@gmail.com> a écrit :
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 06:23:26PM +0100, Laurent Bigonville wrote: > > Le Tue, 11 Nov 2014 11:58:33 -0500, > > Tanstaafl <tansta...@libertytrek.org> a écrit : > > > > > On 11/11/2014 9:26 AM, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud <o...@debian.org> > > > wrote: > > > > Blaming the Debian project for letting the Debian distribution > > > > evolve in ways defined by its volunteers is unfair. > > > > > > Eh? My understanding is that this systemd mess is due to a vote > > > of the technical committee, a vote that was in fact tied and the > > > chair had to cast the tie-breaker. > > > > > > Hardly waht I would call an 'evolution defined by its > > > volunteers'... > > > > The members of the project have delegated the power to arbitrate > > technical decisions to the the technical committee via the > > constitution. Some people might not agree with this, but this how > > the project is working today. > > And that power which was delegated can be reclaimed anytime by it's > true and legitimate owner if, for some reason - say the TC reached a > decision with a Minerva vote by Project Leader and that decision has > proven over the time to be highly controversial among debian users > and developers -, he feels the need to do so. > > As far as debian is related to software, very question can be > expressed as a technical one. As far as it is a project commited to > some political goals, some technical decisions can hinder, others can > further project's goals. > > Nobody is claiming that the TC shouldn't be allowed to decide on > technical issues, but there are people who seem to think that this is > equal to TC's decisions being final, undebatable and impossible to > overrule. If this is true, however, we cannot claim that TC's power > is delegated, we need to recognize that it is an unlimited de facto > power. The TC decisions can be overruled by a GR with a simple majority, see the point 4.1.4 of the Constitution[0] [0] https://www.debian.org/devel/constitution#item-4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141112195508.113dc...@fornost.bigon.be
