<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffcc" text="#000000"> Stefan Potyra wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:200910311917.19895.stefan.potyra@informatik.uni-erlangen.de" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Hi Martin, Am Saturday 31 October 2009 10:57:21 schrieb Martin Pitt: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Stefan Potyra [2009-10-31 2:58 +0100]: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">That aside, I find it very interesting and disturbing that membership of otherwise voted upon boards are (as it occurs to me from this mail) prolonged by the will of one developer. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">Well, it wasn't just that. It was discussed on th DMB list, and there was general agreement (Mark voted +1 on the list, Colin on IRC, I agreed as well, and there was no objection from other members). </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> thanks for clearing that up, but I must admit that I'm now even more confused: Daniel wrote that this was a decision of TB and CC, while you wrote that it was done on the (private) DMB list, making me assume that it was an action of DMB. Which board did take the decision then? </pre> </blockquote> Oh for Pete's sake! This was a simple pragmatic decision to preserve the status quo while we move to a cleaner, better structure. Let's not bog ourselves down in procedural pedantry. If the CC need to, we can make direct appointments and replacements on any structure in Ubuntu, and will do so. Mark </body> </html>