[dropping #727708 as it is getting off-topic] Le Fri, Jan 03, 2014 at 12:22:44PM +0000, Ian Jackson a écrit : > > Our menu arrangements have been unsatisfactory for some time and I for > one would certainly be open to change. Now is probably not the right > time for this, but maybe after we've dealt with the init system > question, you'd like to write up a summary of the situation, and > propose a transition plan. If the policy editors don't see it your > way this is certainly something that the TC should be interested in.
Hello Sune and Ian, The current state of #707851 (‘Soften the wording recommending menu files’) is that the proposition of Sune and Ian got a positive echo from two Policy editors. We then lost momentum, and while Bill's criticism of XDG menu specification had chilling effects on me, reading again the thread, I do not see a black-on-white refusal of the core of the proposal itself, and to be fair I need to say that the final reason why I have not pushed this work further is the lack of stimulating replies to the wording reshaped by Russ and me. I should have been more active and ping directly the participants of the discussion. Let's take it positively: with a bit of support (something like "seconded, thank you") from the proponents of the change, we can move #707851 to acceptance or to a clear definition of what is considered consensus-breaking, in case there is a precise and unresolvable opposition to some of the changes. As the maintainer of the mime-support package I have some interset in #707851 and now that I stepped down as a Policy editor, I do not need to be as neutral as before. I will restart the discussion, keeping the GNOME and KDE people in the loop, in order to do what the bug title asks for: soften the wording recommending menu files. I hope that it will not be necessary to bother the TC. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- 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/20140103141534.GA10529@aqwa.igloo
