Hi, while Lucas did his best to summarize the outcome from the last thread in a fairly constructive and consensual way, it turned out that too many people have too many opinions here on this matter.
Having clearly in mind, that seeking consensus by way of a General Resolution for something ending up in Developer's Reference is like breaking a fly on the wheel, I believe this is the only way out of this impasse which yields to any working solution. As it looks to me, I observe: *) we have consensus that we are in need of such a rule set - which ever it may be *) we have three orthogonally different ideas: a) Bart's approach which was reformulated and proposed by Lucas in this thread [1] b) Mine - which was based on timeout arithmetics [2] c) Michael Gilbert's approach to merge the concept of NMUs with orphaning packages [3] Among these, alternative a) seems to attract most responses and opinions, most agreeing in spirit and procedures, but disagreeing about one detail ... *) ... within approach a) the most heat seems to deal with the necessity to seek ACKs/NACKs for an intent to orphan of a package by peers. If we would exclude the paragraph about DD seconding we are also roughly there, what Sune proposed in [4] and - in spirit - seems to be most attractive alternative to the original proposal. Therefore, I consider seeking resolution by means of a GR proposing Lucas alternative [with minor formulation tweaks and after discussion of the actual text] (that is, proposal a).) without the DD seconding part, because I do not like that much, personally. Moreover, if we decided to go this way, I endorse anyone liking the DD seconding to formulate an amendment adding this or another requirement to the resolution statement. What do you think? Does this sound like a fair compromise everyone could live with? [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/10/msg00469.html [2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/09/msg00654.html [3] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/10/msg00524.html [4] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/10/msg00473.html -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D
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