Julian Andres Klode <j...@debian.org> wrote on 25/03/2025 at 22:10:25+0100:

> On Tue, Mar 25, 2025 at 03:53:24PM -0500, Richard Laager wrote:
>> On 2025-03-25 12:06, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
>> > 2.  Will you articulate a policy that no Debian Developer shall occupy
>> >      more than one delegated role at a time?
>> > 
>> > 3.  Will you ask any Debian Developers enjoying multiple delegations to
>> >      resign from all but one of their choice?
>> 
>> I have some concerns about this.
>> 
>> It seems like this could just lead to broader delegations. For example,
>> instead of having "General Team" with A, B, C, D, & E, and "Specific Team"
>> with A, B, and C, just drop the "Specific Team". For a partially made-up
>> example, imagine we had system administrators and then separate sub-teams
>> for different subsets (e.g. web sysadmins, email sysadmins). Forcing an
>> "only one delegation" rule here doesn't help anything, as the DPL would just
>> eliminate the sub-teams in favor of one overall team. Where the subteams are
>> used to limit access, this change would thus violate the Principle of Least
>> Privilege.
>> 
>> Additionally, the fact that people are wearing multiple hats probably
>> indicates that was necessary to get the job done. There are 142
>> person-delegations to 103 persons. [1] Losing the duplicates seems like it
>> would negatively impact the available volunteer time.
>> 
>> [1] https://www.debian.org/intro/organization
>
> It's also quite frankly silly in a whole lot of cases:

This whole thread is silly IMHO.

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