Re: bastardizing packages or stepping down

2015-03-30 Thread Sam Hartman
Hi. I'm sorry it has taken a while to write back to you. I asked how the TC could help and was confused when I read your message. I provided a couple of options how we might be able to help and you neither selected one of my options nor provided your own. So, I wasn't sure what you were looki

Policy Process and Rough Consensus

2015-03-30 Thread Sam Hartman
Steve, in one of the TC meetings last year, you made the claim that the policy process was not a rough consensus process. I recently read process.txt.gz from the debian-policy package. That document (admittedly dated after #741573 was submitted) claims the opposite. I don't know what the docu

Bug#741573: Requesting input on TC deliberations about menu system and policy

2015-03-30 Thread Sam Hartman
Dear Charles, Last Thursday, the TC met. As part of that meeting we discussed #741573. See the logs at http://meetbot.debian.net/debian-ctte/2015/debian-ctte.2015-03-26-18.59.log.html . Currently the plan is that Keith is going to propose some text within the policy process that he believes

Bug#750135: Status of #750135 (Maintainer of aptitude package)

2015-03-30 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
2015-03-29 21:19 Tollef Fog Heen: ]] Christian PERRIER Hi bubulle! Quoting Axel Beckert (a...@debian.org): > In the long run I'd like to see even more people working on Aptitude. > > But for that, a possessive lead developer or power games are quite > hindering. IMHO one of the reasons Aptitu