Re: Why Debian is dying

Le Wed, Apr 09, 2025 at 09:44:31AM +0800, Sean Whitton a écrit :
> Hello,
> 
> On Tue 08 Apr 2025 at 01:09pm GMT, Holger Levsen wrote:
> 
> > The Technical Committee may:
> >
> >     Decide on any matter of technical policy.
> >     Decide any technical matter where Developers' jurisdictions overlap.
> >     Make a decision when asked to do so.
> >     Overrule a Developer (requires a 3:1 majority).
> >     Offer advice.
> >
> >
> > They all seem to be way more collaborative to me, than - once again -
> > immediatly escalating this to -vote and threatening a GR.
> 
> This is not fair.
> 
> Firstly, the TC cannot overrule delegates.  This is well established.
> During my recently-completed TC term, there was no doubt within the
> committee that we could only deal with disputes among package
> maintainers/contributors, not anything involving DPL delegates.

Without contesting this point, I suggest that the TC could still provide
a non-binding neutral opinion on a technical issue when requested. At
least this could alleviate the need for the DPL to have to decide the
validity technical issue themself. However that requires that no party
is a member of the TC at the time.

I write that as someone which is very critical of the TC concept in
general.

Cheers,