On Fri, 2014-05-23 at 08:32 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 22/05/14 at 10:14 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 03:56:26PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > > We have had some discussion about this. No-one seems to have objected > > > to the suggestion that the DPL, rather than the TC chairman, should > > > have a casting vote in TC decisions. > > > > > I'm therefore intending to roll this up into my TC GR(s). > > > > I don't recall seeing this discussion. I don't agree that this is a good > > structural change, for similar reasons to Tollef. > > Same here. > > Additionally: > 1/ it would feel quite strange if the DPL suddenly had to dig > deeply into a controversial issue at the end of the voting period, > without taking part in the earlier technical discussion. > > 2/ the DPL is not chosen using the same criteria as the TC members, and > we may very well have a DPL that is not trusted by the project for > his/her technical skills. So it would mean turning a technical decision > into a political one. > > 3/ a recent GR (the code of conduct one) showed that Developers were not > big fans of the idea of deferring out-of-the-usual-scope decisions to > the DPL.
The solution is simple: Have an odd number of members in the TC. Then no casting vote is needed at all. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
