On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 06:40:36PM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: > Deciding that an issue isn't important enough to make a decision > requires making some sort of decision.
No it doesn't, it just requires not noticing an issue -- eg, by it not being brought to the tech ctte's attention at all (most decisions in Debian), or by the tech ctte missing it when it is (429761, 439006), or by the tech ctte leaving it lie (436096). > I don't think the CTTE has any > analogous process to a writ of certiorari,[1] so once an issue has > been refered to the CTTE by an individual the issue should be resolved > by considering the merits and making a decision. It's easy to get in the habit of ignoring hard, important problems, and bikeshedding easy, unimportant problems to death. We're very close to that atm -- punting on whether the RFC3484 bug is RC, while going into copious detail about whether a "Proposed Standard" is a standard or not, and going into detail about which file under /etc some option should go to. That's exactly wrong for the committee -- we should be around to work on hard problems, and we shouldn't be spending any time at all on the easy ones, which maintainers are already dealing with. I think we can deal with that without introducing Latin terms or getting too legalistic and process obsessed though. Ultimately it's something the Chairman should probably be taking care of though, I guess. Cheers, aj
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