On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 16:29 -0800, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Mark Loeser wrote: > > Well, instead of putting the debate into an even larger crowd, this > > enables the QA team to act in the way it sees best first. If people > > believe we were wrong, then we give them the option to talk to the > > council about one of our changes. Also, we aren't unwilling to hear > > alternatives and we hope to work with the maintainer on these problems. > > As Stuart mentioned, this is not a good idea. If the maintainer > disagrees with QA-made changes, the changes should be reverted until a > higher-level decision is made. This mirrors FreeBSD policy [1], which > seems to be working quite well for them. A particularly relevant part is > this: > > "Any disputed change must be backed out pending resolution of the > dispute if requested by a maintainer. Security related changes may > override a maintainer's wishes at the Security Officer's discretion."
I think I agree with the part that security@ having near final say. If I had to put a pecking order together how I think it would look/should be would result in something like the following. gentoo-(infra|council) - gentoo-security - gentoo-(devrel|base) -gentoo-qa - gentoo-(hardened|server) - gentoo-(desktop|misc|maintainers|etc..) -- Ned Ludd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo Linux -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list