On Sat, 2014-01-04 at 22:37:59 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Fri, Jan 03, 2014 at 05:58:19PM +0000, Ian Jackson a écrit : > > I think that the current policy maintenance approach is too > > bureaucratic and relies too little on the technical judgement of the > > policy editors. I would like to see the policy editors assess > > proposals not only for consensus and support, but also to consider > > proposals on their actual merit. Support (in the form of seconds) and > > consensus can be a very helpful guide to the merit of a proposal, and > > seeking consensus and second opinions is a very helpful way to avoid > > making mistakes, but IMO it is the merit of the proposal that should > > matter.
> I think that the main problem is not the excess of neutrality of the Policy > editors, but the lack of involvement from the Developers as a whole. For > example, I am still amazed that despite we are expected to be hundreds, only > one Developer managed to second the documentation of the Dpkg triggers > (#582109), despite it does not introduce changes to the current practice > (therefore, the challenge is only to check the accuracy; there is no arbitrary > decision to take). I've got that on my TODO list for a while, but I've increasingly found it difficult to motivate myself to help with the policy process, while the tech-ctte seems to be enacting itself as some kind of Technical Leadership Board trying to set project directions, with its members reassigning issues themselves to fast-track them; and while decisions for global project stuff are no longer decided by consensus, but by force. Obviously someone else has decided they can do the work. > This said, if the participation does not increase, it would make sense for the > Policy editors to relax the current process. If the policy process was to turn into some kind of policy-ctte, then I'd see no reason for me to participate in it anymore, at all. Thanks, Guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20140104150515.ga22...@gaara.hadrons.org
