Simon Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Do you feel that the DPL is first and foremost The Debian Project >> Leader, in the sense that anything Debian-related the DPL does, he >> does so as the DPL, not as a DD or a private person? > > Both. Foremost, the position of the DPL is a "hat" that can be put on > if needed, and shouldn't be put on if there is no clear need for it, > however it is also important that the person below the hat still has > the trust and respect of the others. The DPL can only mediate as long > as he is deemed impartial, and this is a highly subjective judgement > in which the wearing or non-wearing of hats only plays a minor role.
Do you not see the problem that people might view the DPL's hat on top of the DD's head, even if the DD think's he isn't wearing it? > I think this is the main issue people have with dunc-tank: By paying > people to perform some task in Debian, we'd effectively acknowledge > that it is necessary to pay them, otherwise we wouldn't. However if > this is the case, then it is not a once-off thing, but will be > recurring every year; claiming otherwise asks the question of why this > particular incident is different and should not be seen as a > precedent. I cannot speak for "people", but for *me* this is not the main issue. Personally, I was pretty undecided with respect to paying the release managers. I am *really* angry, however (always must hold myself back from writing this other four-letter-word with 'u' when spelling dunc-tank), about the fact that our DPL, as soon as he felt the wind blowing in his face, turned his back on the project and founded dunc-tank, out of the control of the project, but with unclear boundary to it, and with him juggling with DPL, DD and personal hats. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
