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Debian release manager Luk Claes resigns
Hi It's time to stop thinking I would be able to keep working as Release Manager in this climate, I hereby resign as Release Manager. Cheers Luk (Log in to post comments)
Debian release manager Luk Claes resigns Posted Mar 18, 2010 4:29 UTC (Thu) by BenHutchings (subscriber, #37955) [Link] I don't think any information is needed beyond this blog posting by Clint Adams and the thread started by Luk here.
Debian release manager Luk Claes resigns Posted Mar 18, 2010 14:03 UTC (Thu) by ccurtis (guest, #49713) [Link]
It seems to me that this is the right thing to do on both parties' behalves. Luk clearly isn't a manager type and only assumed the role grudgingly. Debian needs someone else to handle the reporting side of things while Luk does the technical stuff, at which he seems more adept.
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This to me further demonstrates the problems I see in the business environments I've worked when technical people are "promoted" into management positions. Management isn't a promotion from a technical field, anymore than supervising a ditch digging effort is a promotion from a draftsman. They're orthogonal skill sets.
And however "management" has come to bee seen as "better" (ie: higher paying) than engineering I'll never understand. I think that attitude is in part what causes most of the corporate-evil-corruption activity we see today. The thieves who lie and cheat for their own personal gain can't fake being engineers, but almost any fool can become "management".
But don't misunderstand me: there are people with great management abilities. They've just tilted the game in such away that the shysters can abuse it.
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Debian release manager Luk Claes resigns Posted Mar 30, 2010 16:06 UTC (Tue) by Baylink (subscriber, #755) [Link]
But conversely, release manager is an *engineering* job: it has to be bossed by an engineer.
Fred Brooks covered some possible solutions for this conundrum, as I recall, in T3M; perhaps Debian should be looking into those?
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