Julian Gilbey wrote:
> I'm not sure I fully understand this.
Well it looks like I've misunderstood parts of the process, leading to this
confusion. The page describing it isn't entirely clear to me.
> Can I try repeating it and you
> say if I am correct? I'm also not quite sure how your categories and
> Joey's (amendments, consensus, active proposals and stalled proposals)
> match up.
>
> Original pre-formal discussion period:
> Subject: [PROPOSAL] blah blah
> Severity: wishlist
Somehow I'd gotten the idea we needed to get a consensus here before moving
onto the next step. Not true. Just some seconds, right? Is 2 enough?
> Start of formal discussion period, when proposal is put forward as an
> amendment:
> Subject: [AMENDMENT DD/MM/YYYY] blah blah
> Severity: normal
The following proposals have 2 seconds and should therefore become
amendments:
- Separate menu policy (like virtual package list) (#37713)
- Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND (#37345)
- Let's Debian blow... gracefully!
- Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X Window System) (#38212)
- Md5sum proposal
- Software depending on non-US (#37251)
Plus these that have been stalled for a while:
- moving the menu hierarchy into debian policy (#36051)
(I hereby withdraw this proposal, #37713 is better.)
- moving the menu hierarchy into debian policy (the other varient)
(I hereby withdraw my second to this proposal, #37713 is better.
So this only has 1 second and is gone from this list too.)
> If and when a formal proposal is accepted, so that the proposed
> amendment is now waiting to be implemented into policy (as listed in
> Joey's weekly mailing as amendments or consensus?):
> Subject: [AMENDMENT DD/MM/YYYY] blah blah
> Severity: normal
> Marked as forwarded
The following amendments need to have this done to them then:
- Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages (#37257)
- Logrotation (#37342)
- Utmp group proposal (#37389)
- Separate menu policy (like virtual package list) (#37713)
- Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND (#37345)
I've updated the summary page, http://kitenet.net/~joey/policy-weekly.html
I think I'll repost it since I goofed so badly. :-)
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