On 07-Aug-98 Manoj Srivastava wrote: > I propose we select/install a group of people who have access to the > CVS repository for the Policy documents; however, this set of people > behave more like maintainers rather than authors/editors. This group > does not create policy, not does it exercise editorial control, Policy > is decided "upstream". The group that decides on policy should be the > group of developers on the Debian-policy mailing lists, which is how > it was always done; so the group of policy maintainers have no real > power over policy. Since they would have access to the CVS repository > I guess it is desirable that the people so appointed be ``mature'', > however that is determined. > > I think that since the policy maintainers have no special powers, > there is no need to restrict their participation in the discussion. We > do need to have at least 4-5 people on the job, preferably closer to > 8, so that policy does not languish when any maintainer goes missing > (we do need vacations, you know, once in a while), and since little > creative power is vested in the maintainers, we do not need a central > control. And the archives of the list can be used as a record of the > action decided upon even if all maintainers are away at some time. How will these 4-5(or 8) people be selected?
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