If you're cc'd on this message, you're one of the people who volunteered to write language for Policy bugs.
I've finished categorizing all the open bugs against debian-policy, and I believe that the tags now correctly reflect the status of the bug, or are at least close. That means that all the bugs tagged proposal have, I believe, (possibly rough) consensus on what should be done and are awaiting a concrete wording proposal for further discussion or merging. You should therefore be able to go to: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=debian-policy&pend-exc=done&tag=proposal and get a nice list of bugs that just need someone to write up language, from which you can select any bug that doesn't already have an owner. Note that some bugs are marked as blocked by other bugs; those are cases where there will be substantial overlap of wording, and hence substantial merge conflicts, if you start writing wording before the other bug is resolved. You probably want to skip those for now. The consensus may or may not be entirely obvious to someone other than me, so if you read through the bug and are left wondering why I thought it was ready for wording, please do feel free to mail me and ask what I was thinking. :) There's a wide variety of stuff here in terms amount of effort required, ranging from a virtual package entry to "document triggers." Feel free to start small; I usually do. Getting a few smaller bugs finished off helps build a feeling of momentum. If you decide to work on wording for a bug, please mark yourself as the owner of that bug in the BTS so that we don't duplicate effort. (Note also that this means you will block other people from working on the bug by taking ownership, so if you end up running out of time, please do use "noowner" to remove the owner annotation again.) Everyone is, of course, invited to help, even if you're not cc'd! -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/8739u87ppb....@windlord.stanford.edu
