On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:11:54AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: >On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:42:45PM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: >> > In my opinion, the current recommendation in the developer >> > references is enough for now: > >I concur. > >> Different thing. This encourages the maintainer to think if he wants >> it. Now, what if the maintainer wants it (hey, some people might like >> some pain), but a huge group in Debian does not? The latter is what >> Steve tries to address, the dev-ref doesnt do any good there. > >Still, I fail to see exactly how Steve was proposing to solve the >issue. He mentioned a vote, but to me the proposal was too vague to even >understand what we can vote about.
Oh, absolutely. :-) I don't have a concrete proposal for what we could/should vote on yet, instead I'm looking for more opinions here. >Actually, I don't even think we need a _general_ solution for the cases >you mention (which are at least a bit more precise enabling to >understand what we are talking about). In those cases indeed, we would >have a conflict between a single developer and the "developer >body". Cases like that are already supported by constitution per se by, >for instance, having a GR (or even appealing to CTTE FWIW). > >One might think that the GR is "too public" and that can exacerbate the >battle between the project and the upstream author, but actually in all >past cases that come to my mind, the battle was already well known to >the big public. > >So, can't we just stay put and say that, when new cases will arise, we >will vote about whether the project wants a specific software---due to >difficulties in dealing with a specific upstream---in the distro or not? I guess it depends on how often it might come up; do we need a YA potential flamwewar each time, or can we come up with a set of reasonable guidelines which will help maintainers/ftpmaster/TC to decide without that? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com Welcome my son, welcome to the machine. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
