Hi, If you see projects like Openstack or oVirt (sorry for the examples taken from my area of expertise...), they have elections every 6 months for project leaders in this or that area of the project.
In Debian, we just elect a DPL, and then we hope that he appoints people who then can make decisions on the behalf of Debian. I feel strange that such a big project as Debian appears to work in a less democratic way than some software which has adopted open governance (truth, this is the new hype, but still...). I see no reason why we couldn't have more direct appointments for key positions in Debian. I feel like it would be possible to have more democratic, ways to do things, with direct votes. Also, on the opposite side, the DPL is currently having to appoint regularly others, which is only a formal thing and is sometimes a useless loss of time (maybe Zack can tell a bit more about this in a better English than mine...). What are the improvements in this area that our 2012 candidates foresee? Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f5cfcf5.5050...@debian.org
