Draft ballot for the project leader vote

2008-03-27 Thread Debian Project Secretary
Hi, The following is a draft ballot for comment. The order of the candidates names was determined by a virtual coin toss. manoj == Voting period starts 00:00:01 UTC on Sunday, March 30th, 2008

Re: Technical committee resolution

2008-03-27 Thread Josip Rodin
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 07:04:09PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Josip Rodin writes ("Re: Technical committee resolution"): > > Instead, I would suggest to do two things - first, institute a better > > process, one that doesn't so much focus on intricate stalemates (like the > > present 6.2 does), bu

Re: Technical committee resolution

2008-03-27 Thread Joey Hess
Ian Jackson wrote: > The main symptom of the TC's brokenness is that it is not making > decisions, or not making them fast enough. Agreed. > I haven't heard anyone suggest that the TC is actually making wrong > decisions. Well.. #104101: The TCs resolution that kernel sould have VESA fb compi

Re: Technical committee resolution

2008-03-27 Thread Joey Hess
Ian Jackson wrote: > The causes seem to include: Isn't the main cause that the Technical Committee is well, a committee? (Recall the old saying about many heads and no brain.) That seems to be the core reason for all the problems you listed. > I think we could fix these by > > * Increasing the

Re: Technical committee resolution

2008-03-27 Thread Josselin Mouette
On jeu, 2008-03-27 at 19:06 +, Ian Jackson wrote: > The main symptom of the TC's brokenness is that it is not making > decisions, or not making them fast enough. I haven't heard anyone > suggest that the TC is actually making wrong decisions. Even the glibc maintainers? -- .''`. : :' :

Re: Technical committee resolution

2008-03-27 Thread Ian Jackson
OK, here is a go at some personal observations: The main symptom of the TC's brokenness is that it is not making decisions, or not making them fast enough. I haven't heard anyone suggest that the TC is actually making wrong decisions. The causes seem to include: * Some TC members not being ve

Re: Technical committee resolution

2008-03-27 Thread Ian Jackson
Josip Rodin writes ("Re: Technical committee resolution"): > Instead, I would suggest to do two things - first, institute a better > process, one that doesn't so much focus on intricate stalemates (like the > present 6.2 does), but one that focuses on how to generally get things done > - such as a