Term limits and the Debian Technical Committee

Another reason for term limits is that if you want to bring fresh blood into the TC, someone has to resign first. That's rather unhealthy situation: if someone wants in, they have to "force" someone out.

> But the term-limit idea would constitute a major change in how Debian functions

I don't think this is such a radical change. The TC is more like a "council of elders" that does not do much unless there is a crisis, AFAICT. It's an important role, but not that critical. That's also the reason, I think, why term limits for the TC was not an issue until now - the TC was simply not seen as that important :) (But I'm not a DD, just a grateful user, so I may be doing all the wrong extrapolations.)