On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Further my experience is that if 15% of a particular group is unhappy, > > usually the person made a good choice. 40%? Not so much. > > If I were the DPL I would consider my position very carefully if a > recall petition even got enough signatures to go to a ballot. > > To put this in terms you may be familiar with: Anthony was impeached > and 15% of the decisionmaking body (those Developers who voted) were > in favour of forcing him out and holding an emergency election.
>From the results, it looks like AJ has an 83% approval rating, to continue to use terms you may be familiar with. Most leaders would be envious of such a rating. > No other DPL has done anything controversial enough to put to a vote > to overrule the decision, let alone been subject to a vote whether to > recall them. I am glad to hear the current DPL is willing to take risks. What a horrible thing for a leader to do! This thread is not supposed to be about putting the DPL on trial: that's none of SPI's business. There will be an election soon in any case. Our mission here is only to formalise the existing relationship between SPI and Debian in a simple resolution acknowledging that the DPL or his delegate is the contact point for the conveyance of decisions by Debian and thus, from SPI's point of view, the decisionmaker even if he is only passing on decisions made by GR. As has been stated, if the DPL is not doing a good job of this, it is the responsibility of Debian to replace that DPL, and the new DPL's responsibility to advise the board of the removal of his predecessor, with appropriate citation as needed. Thus the extent of the constitution's mention in the resolution should only be to acknowledge that the DPL's powers are detailed in the constitution of the project, leaving any matter of changed constitution in the future up entirely to interpretation as it would be for any project. In practical terms, this does not limit who can warn us that the leader's powers have changed or have been overstepped while allowing us to have a constructive relationship with the project through the DPL. - - David "cdlu" Graham - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Guelph, Ontario - http://www.cdlu.net/ _______________________________________________ Spi-general mailing list Spi-general@lists.spi-inc.org http://lists.spi-inc.org/listinfo/spi-general
