Monday, 9 June 2025

Re: DMB appointment process [was: Call for nominations: Developer Membership Board restaffing]

Thanks for the feedback! I'll ask the TB to do this then, at their (our)
next meeting.

On Thu, Jun 05, 2025 at 03:06:21PM +0200, Simon Chopin wrote:
> > I do not know the ruling/processing, would the decision to switch need
> > to be an election itself?
> > Or is that something that can be discussed here and then decided by
> > the TB to make it official?
>
> The precise delegation path that led to the DMB having the powers it had
> today is hard to figure out, but at least its most technically powerful
> right — managing the Core Dev team — was handled by the TB before,
> according to https://ubuntu-news.org/2009/12/09/call-for-nominations-ubuntu-developer-membership-board/

Nice find!

> For me, that makes a simple vote from the current TB enough to enact any
> change regarding the way the DMB works.

I agree. My understanding is that everything the DMB does is under the
authority of the TB, and therefore the TB has the authority to change
that as they feel appropriate.

I prefer to seek this kind of change by consensus - which it appears we
have - but for such a significant structural change a formal TB decision
seems like the right way, and the members to be directly appointed can
be affirmed at the same time.

Robie