On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:57:08 -0400, Clint Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 05:29:07PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> So, I am secretary, and work on debian technical policy; you think
>> this is overloaded with too many responsibilities? Any tech ctte
>> member worth their salt would be involved in Debian beyond
>> maintaining packages (if for nothing else to demonstrate they are
>> qualified to be tech ctte members).
> I would think that in a project with 1000 alleged active members, we
> could easily limit privileged access to one instance per person
> without any serious problems.
We could. We could also choose quite another set of silly
criteria to limit various and sundry things by. The question is, why?
Why one? A better criteria is not to limit oneself by arbitrary number
games, but see where the maximal benefit to the project lies. If one
person has the time or energy to manage one hundred hats, and do a
better job of them than other candidates, why deprive the project due
Clint's law of pointless limitations?
> If each committee member were forced to pick one "hat" of privilege,
> and one only, I suspect that fewer than half would pick the ctte as
> first choice. If that is not the case, then perhaps the members are
> worth their salt after all.
A criteria for membershipt that the membership on the ctte is
the most important thing to the candidate perhaps is the wrong
thing. I would say anyone who want s so badly to be on the ctte should
be looked at askance -- what is ther agenda so that they want to be on
a dreary , mostly thankless position where most of the time your work
lies in research and making dcisions that will, for years, be second
guessed by people who have little better to do?
> The criteria I would look for in membership selection, if the
> tech-ctte actually does need to exist, would include patience,
> commitment, rationality, and just enough technical adeptness and
> communication ability to understand the issues presented.
> I believe you have very different criteria.
Indeed. I would rate technical excellence higher. And
willingness to serve.
manoj
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