Re: Q: Delegations and their value

Sruthi Chandran <[email protected]> Sat, 21 Mar 2026 18:14:52 +0100

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On 19/03/26 14:38, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> Hi Sruthi,
>
> You've mentioned elsewhere a desire to perhaps have more delegations 
> than we have now. In particular you've specifically highlighted the 
> diversity team as a possible delegation.
>
We do have a good number of delegated teams and they all seem to work 
well mostly. But I am sure there are gaps and there are possibilities 
for more delegated teams. There are many teams which function already 
without delegation, but would benefit from more powers through 
delegation and there are some areas entirely ignored where a delegated 
teams can do a good work. I have mentioned about delegating DPL helpers 
team and diversity team.
> What are the benefits of delegation? What powers exactly would you be 
> delegating, broadly in general terms, and specifically for the 
> diversity team?

Delegation helps to decentralize the powers, formalize the activities, 
make independent decisions wherever suitable and represent Debian to the 
outside world formally.

The powers delegated would depend on the team being delegated. The 
powers delegated would be to ensure that the team can be able to do its 
regular activities with minimum input from outside while ensuring that 
these powers does not make the team autocratic.

With respect to the Diversity team, the delegation would be to manage 
all the amount spent for diversity activities and ensure that the 
spending is justified, streamline all the diversity related activities 
and facilitate more diversity related work etc.

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> Thank you for standing!
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