Le Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 09:12:16AM +0000, Lars Wirzenius a écrit : > > You're not the DEP5 driver
Hi Lars and everybody, I am driving this DEP and re-listed myself at a driver to mark that fact. To summarise: - The original idea, from Sam Hocevar, was posted on this list on August 4, 2007. - A draft was written collaboratively on the wiki until March 2009, in which I had my share of contributions. - I do not remember who was the first to suggest to make a DEP out of it, but please note revision 294: I am the one to propose it in the wiki page. - The DEP was started in private, motivated in part by Ubuntu's agenda. It was a terrible mistake for me to accept this, as it resulting in purging and demotivating most of the original contributors. Nevertheless, I did a large—or perhaps the largest—share of that work in that phase. - The DEP continued in public, and the only moment where I gave up driving this project was when you stepped in. It made tremendous progresses under your direction; unfortunately you stepped down in the last mile. I dare saying that I contributed a lot. Among other things did the conversion to DocBook which has let the DEP enter in the debian-policy package, and made sure that the DEP's license short names are compatible with SPDX. - In a further phase, I organised the work through the BTS. Consensus was reached and the DEP was updated accordingly. I also coordinated the publication of the DEP on www.debian.org. At the next upload of the debian-policy package, the DEP will be on line at its canonical URL: http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/ - In this final phase, I am making sure that there is no objection anymore to the release. And I will not let the momentum slip for one more year. More importantly than the procedural details: I have followed the work from its beginning, made sure that no contribution was ignored, and that most questions were answered. To the best of my free time, I made sure that past discussions were not forgotten and taken into account when the same questions were asked over and over the years. This is what I expect from a driver: being the memory of the project, keeping momentum, and making consensus on the final document. I am driving this DEP. One can argue forever on this, but please let me suggest that the best way to close the debate is to finish that work. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120201151243.ga20...@merveille.plessy.net
