Le Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 07:55:13AM -0400, Michael Stone écrivait: > > The QA committee was designed to play such a role. Sorry. > > The committee may have been designed that way, but it never had any > more authority to act than any maintainer already has. (IOW, a QA
Yes, that's true, but many maintainers feared to remove packages owned by other and so on, so the committee (with unfearful people) could have helped by taking the (reasoned) decision. > committee action would be no less subject to bitching & second guessing > than a consensus decision on [EMAIL PROTECTED] or even an arbitrary > decision by an ftp archive maintainer.) Yes, but at least the original maintainer wouldn't have been annoyed directly, the committee would have been but since it was composed of people especially trained to resist to flames and other pepople bitching about their decision, it wouldn't have caused much trouble. :-D Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog -+- http://strasbourg.linuxfr.org/~raphael/ Le bouche à oreille du Net : http://www.beetell.com Naviguer sans se fatiguer à chercher : http://www.deenoo.com Formation Linux et logiciel libre : http://www.logidee.com
