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voted guidelines or whim? (was Re: Project leader's final word on the "purity" issue)

Craig Sanders:
> Until bruce's unilateral decision earlier today, the ONLY criteria for a
> package getting into debian was whether it met the requirements of the
> DFSG or not.  ...
> 
> now, new packages have to meet bruce's personal approval. 

Quite.

Hamish Moffatt responds:
>...  If we do intend to yank packages, then
> we need some formal guidelines for doing so. ...

I agree entirely.  The guidelines should be decided on by the
developers, and implemented by the FTP site maintainer.

As I've stated in my election address, if elected as project leader in
the forthcoming election I will return authority over major political
decisions like this one to the developers.

Kai Henningsen:
>... I see absolutely no reason why the Debian Project Leader  
> should act as an editor for the distribution. I strongly believe this  
> shouldn't be part of the job description.

I agree.  With the current setup of leadership by fiat the Project
Leader has the authority to overrule and therefore the responsibility
for every decision that is taken in the Project.  I plan to change
this, so that the Project Leader's role is to coordinate, suggest,
mediate, lead discussion, built consensus, but to defer to the
consensus of the developers on political issues and to a team of
competent technical people on technical issues.

Ian.


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