On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 12:37:54AM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > On Tue, Nov 21, 2023 at 10:26:09PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > > Dear Debian voters, > > > > While Debian has stakes in the CRA, and should issue a statement if > > only to show we exists, I am quite sure that a GR is not necessary for > > Debian > > to issue such statement, and I am quite unconvinced the GR process is the > > best > > option for the purpose of drafting such statement. > > > > I note that this is not the first law proposal that impact Debian and we > > never > > did used the GR process for issuing a position statement. > > > > The DPL could delegate to a group of people knowledgeable in EU law to draft > > a statement that is congruent with the interest of Debian. > > I'm not sure that the DPL has such authority, since it's a power > giving to the developers by way of GR.
The project has published a number of statements across its history without them following a GR, see the archive of debian-announce and debian-news, so this is the precedent. > I would also like to point out that, in the current state, on Saturday > the discussion period is over and a vote is automatically called. I understand. I regret that the current system is such that the GR proposal is announced to debian-devel-announce only after the vote is called. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here.
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