Re: Streamlining the policy process

2012-07-14 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 08:12:51PM -0700, Russ Allbery a écrit : > Jonathan Nieder writes: > > > Question > > > > I'm happy to hear you have ideas for a smoother policy process. Could > > you suggest a few? Maybe we can batch them up and make a gene

Re: Streamlining the policy process

2012-07-12 Thread Russ Allbery
Jonathan Nieder writes: > Question > > I'm happy to hear you have ideas for a smoother policy process. Could > you suggest a few? Maybe we can batch them up and make a general > resolution. :) I think the problems with the current process fall into roughly the

Streamlining the policy process

2012-07-08 Thread Jonathan Nieder
#x27;m happy to hear you have ideas for a smoother policy process. Could you suggest a few? Maybe we can batch them up and make a general resolution. :) Hope that helps, Jonathan [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2012/07/msg00037.html [2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-policy/2011/

Re: RFC: Policy process considered harmful

2011-11-28 Thread Bill Allombert
perience has been that the policy process works pretty well when > a policy delegate is involved in the discussion. Seconds for good > proposals are not hard to find, most parties have good faith, and the > result is that the proposals that get adopted are well reviewed and > carefully tho

RFC: Policy process considered harmful

2011-11-27 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Disclaimer: the below is a half-baked long-term proposal for a process change. If you're wondering about how to do useful work today, please ignore it. But comments welcome. Hi, My experience has been that the policy process works pretty well when a policy delegate is involved i

Re: policy process documentation on wiki

2008-03-17 Thread Russ Allbery
Clint Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > http://wiki.debian.org/PolicyChangesProcess does not appear to be > comprehensive. In particular, I note no description of the 'normative' > usertag. > > Please update the page. This is now updated for the changes that I made yesterday. I'm writing a mor

Re: policy process documentation on wiki

2008-03-15 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sat, 15 Mar 2008, Clint Adams wrote: > http://wiki.debian.org/PolicyChangesProcess does not appear to be > comprehensive. In particular, I note no description of the > 'normative' usertag. > > Please update the page. And it would also be a good idea to create a page in http://wiki.debian.org/T

policy process documentation on wiki

2008-03-15 Thread Clint Adams
http://wiki.debian.org/PolicyChangesProcess does not appear to be comprehensive. In particular, I note no description of the 'normative' usertag. Please update the page. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The policy process and user categories

2007-12-30 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sun, 30 Dec 2007, Russ Allbery wrote: > Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Mon, 24 Dec 2007, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > >> I have since used that framework, and I am proposing expanding > >> the user tags and using the user debian-policy@lists.debian.org as the > >> d

Re: The policy process and user categories

2007-12-30 Thread Russ Allbery
Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 24 Dec 2007, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> I have since used that framework, and I am proposing expanding >> the user tags and using the user debian-policy@lists.debian.org as the >> default user. I have expanded on the scheme used by

Re: The policy process and user categories

2007-12-30 Thread Russ Allbery
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is going to be a long email. I am contemplating the > holiday festivities, and am getting into the zen mode for making > traditional egg nog. Where I live, traditional egg nog means > contemplating very old Kentucky straight bourbon

Re: The policy process and user categories

2007-12-26 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Mon, 24 Dec 2007, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > I have since used that framework, and I am proposing expanding > the user tags and using the user debian-policy@lists.debian.org as the > default user. I have expanded on the scheme used by Russ, to better I suggest [EMAIL PROTECTED] as us

The policy process and user categories

2007-12-24 Thread Manoj Srivastava
nf, I gave a talk titled: "The Policy and RC bug goulash", which can be found at http://people.debian.org/~srivasta/talks/policy_change_process/policy_and_rc_bugs.pdf. The talk deals with two things: the policy rewrite, and the changes to the policy process itself. I have already

Bug#377215: marked as done (policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/; s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?)

2006-10-02 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
: #375728). * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #376104). * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula

Re: Policy process (was: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Re: Moving /var/run to a tmpfs?)

2006-09-18 Thread Kurt Roeckx
thing. > > > Some of those currently open bugs against the policy package, like your > > ~ in version numbers, really shouldn't be a problem to get into the > > policy. I don't think anybody has a problem with it. I think it's just > > that no new version

Re: Policy process (was: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Re: Moving /var/run to a tmpfs?)

2006-09-17 Thread Bill Allombert
ur > > ~ in version numbers, really shouldn't be a problem to get into the > > policy. I don't think anybody has a problem with it. I think it's just > > that no new version of the policy has been made yet. > > Well, policy-process is still shipped with the debian

Policy process (was: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Re: Moving /var/run to a tmpfs?)

2006-09-17 Thread Russ Allbery
shouldn't be a problem to get into the > policy. I don't think anybody has a problem with it. I think it's just > that no new version of the policy has been made yet. Well, policy-process is still shipped with the debian-policy package, and my experience in the past is that w

Bug#377215: policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/; s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?

2006-07-07 Thread Justin Pryzby
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.7.2.1 Severity: minor |proposals after a a sufficiently long period ^ |wasting peoples time ^^^ Discussion may be intiated initiated no restriction of their participattion the

Official policy process (was: Bug#375502: debian-policy must clarify how sub-policies should be managed)

2006-06-26 Thread Frank Küster
are/doc/debian-policy, if >> it is accepted and has been established through the official policy >> process. > > There is no `official policy process'. Manoj has (very wisely IMO) > abolished the previous bureaucracy and returned to editing the manual > according to his

Bug#360518: marked as done (debian-policy: typo in policy-process: "Guideliens")

2006-05-03 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
ebian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda(Closes: #365356). * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510). *

Bug#88249: marked as done ([PROPOSAL] policy process must explicitly include relevant package maintainers)

2006-04-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
system administrator (administrator, Debian Bugs database) --- Begin Message --- Package: debian-policy Previously Julian Gilbey wrote: > See bug#72335 (accepted). It'll fall over badly if this behaviour is > not honoured (which it is by make). I think we found a flaw in the policy pro

Bug#360518: debian-policy: typo in policy-process: "Guideliens"

2006-04-02 Thread Lars Wirzenius
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.6.2.2 Severity: minor In http://localhost/doc/debian-policy/policy-process.html/ch1.html#s1.1 I see "1.1 Guideliens for policy change proposals", the first word should be "Guidelines". -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing

Re: Policy Process (was: Bug #89867: Where to place web-accessible images)

2002-09-06 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Matthew" == Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Matthew> On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Matthew> Based on the proposal's use of http://localhost/, or some Matthew> other criteria? >> >> Right now, if I arrange for images to be referenced in >> /var/www/, they are acce

Re: Policy Process (was: Bug #89867: Where to place web-accessible images)

2002-09-02 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Matthew> Based on the proposal's use of http://localhost/, or some > Matthew> other criteria? > > Right now, if I arrange for images to be referenced in > /var/www/, they are accessible elsewhere (I did something like that > when I used to m

Re: Policy Process (was: Bug #89867: Where to place web-accessible images)

2002-09-02 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Matthew" == Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Matthew> On Sun, 1 Sep 2002, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Matthew> personally am particularly interested in #89867, which has Matthew> been turned into an amendment, but hasn't had any sort of Matthew> discussion or acceptance. >> >> Sinc

Re: Policy Process (was: Bug #89867: Where to place web-accessible images)

2002-09-02 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, 1 Sep 2002, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Matthew> personally am particularly interested in #89867, which has > Matthew> been turned into an amendment, but hasn't had any sort of > Matthew> discussion or acceptance. > > Since the web browsers have not implemented the requisite > cha

Re: Policy Process (was: Bug #89867: Where to place web-accessible images)

2002-09-01 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Matthew" == Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Matthew> Policy process section 3.4 doesn't seem to make any mention Matthew> of how a proposed amendment gets accepted or rejected. I Well, rough consensus is one criteria. Not making a `

Bug#146756: marked as done (debian-policy: missing index.html for debian-policy-process)

2002-08-31 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
y 2002 15:00:14 -0400 From: "Laurence J. Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: debian-policy: missing index.html for debian-policy-process Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charse

Policy Process (was: Bug #89867: Where to place web-accessible images)

2002-08-25 Thread Matthew Palmer
Policy process section 3.4 doesn't seem to make any mention of how a proposed amendment gets accepted or rejected. I personally am particularly interested in #89867, which has been turned into an amendment, but hasn't had any sort of discussion or acceptance. I for one would like

Bug#146756: debian-policy: missing index.html for debian-policy-process

2002-05-12 Thread Laurence J. Lane
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.5.6.1 Severity: minor File: /usr/share/doc-base/debian-policy-process The doc-base entry for debian-policy-process lists index.html as the Index, but the file is missing. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/share/doc/debian-policy/policy-process.html$ ls ch1.html ch2

Bug#88249: PROPOSAL] policy process must explicitly include relevant package maintainers

2001-03-02 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On 20010302T114353+0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > We actually should consider another change: something can not become policy > until there is an existing implementaiton. This rule is also used in the RFC > process, and works great there. This particular amendment does not require an implementati

Bug#88249: [PROPOSAL] policy process must explicitly include relevant package maintainers

2001-03-02 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Package: debian-policy Previously Julian Gilbey wrote: > See bug#72335 (accepted). It'll fall over badly if this behaviour is > not honoured (which it is by make). I think we found a flaw in the policy process here: policy changes should be cc'ed to the relevant package mainta

Bug#85501: marked as done (typo in policy process chapter 3)

2001-02-15 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
ECTED]>; Sat, 10 Feb 2001 09:46:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from shaleh by one.willcodeforfood.via.net with local (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 14Re4A-0001Bj-00; Sat, 10 Feb 2001 09:44:10 -0800 From: Sean Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[EMAIL PROTECT

Bug#85501: typo in policy process chapter 3

2001-02-10 Thread Sean Perry
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.5.0.0 Severity: minor flush out old proposal after a a suuficiently long period of time There should be one 'u' and two 'f's in sufficiently. -- System Information Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux one 2.4.0 #1 Fri Jan 5 22:24:46

Re: Policy process

2000-05-05 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Anthony" == Anthony Towns writes: Anthony> It makes a certain amount of sense that we need a smarter Anthony> tool to handle open issues against policy than open bugs Anthony> against most packages. To me, anyway. Let us see what this mechanism would need to do. a) It should allo

Re: Policy process

2000-04-29 Thread Anthony Towns
e seemed to be very little of any use and a lot of noise. > I think the problem you perceive would be alliviated by making > some changes in the BTS itself. I agree with Santiago here. Automating away the annoying bits of the policy process seems like a much better solution than getting people

Re: Policy process

2000-04-27 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Ian" == Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ian> Manoj Srivastava writes ("Re: Policy process"): >> >> Each document, or part of a document, has one or more editors >> within that maintainer team. Only the editor(s) responsible

Re: Policy process

2000-04-26 Thread Ian Jackson
Manoj Srivastava writes ("Re: Policy process"): > Hmm. I'll reiterate: I find your proposal very cathedral in nature; > indeed, I found it quite fuedalistic. And it is a sizeable increase > in bureaucratic hassles: > > Each document, or part of a doc

Re: Policy process

2000-04-26 Thread Santiago Vila
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Ian Jackson wrote: > [...] > > I've now done a bit of research about this, prompted by the fact that > when I visited -policy in my newsreader today for the first time in a > few days there seemed to be very little of any use and a lot of noise. > [...] Since I'm in part res

Re: Policy process

2000-04-26 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Here is my take on what we need to do to rejuvenate policy creation (which is quite moribund, in case you had not noticed, since I have stopped working on it pending the DPL's delegation of power). a) we need to keep using the BTS to record what's going on, and not let things die

Re: Policy process

2000-04-26 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Ian" == Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ian> Jason Gunthorpe writes ("Re: Policy process"): >> I also object, I find Manoj's argument about 20 some-odd policy jobs to be >> a rather compelling reason to think this is a bad idea

Re: Policy process

2000-04-26 Thread Ian Jackson
Jason Gunthorpe writes ("Re: Policy process"): > I also object, I find Manoj's argument about 20 some-odd policy jobs to be > a rather compelling reason to think this is a bad idea. . You'll have to remind me. It's some time since we had this discussion the first

Re: Policy process

2000-04-25 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Ian Jackson wrote: > I think we should implement the process I sent out in a draft a week > or two ago. No-one seemed to object very much (though perhaps people > were just tired, and Manoj probably still objects). I also object, I find Manoj's argument about 20 some-odd po

Re: Policy process

2000-04-25 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes ("Policy process"): > I think we should implement the process I sent out in a draft a week > or two ago. No-one seemed to object very much (though perhaps people > were just tired, and Manoj probably still objects). I forgot to attach a copy. H

Policy process

2000-04-25 Thread Ian Jackson
Right, we just saw 5 people post `me too' because of the current policy process. I think we should implement the process I sent out in a draft a week or two ago. No-one seemed to object very much (though perhaps people were just tired, and Manoj probably still objects). If we are to impl

Re: Revised policy process - proposal

2000-04-04 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 06:57:55PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > In the IRC discussion I said I would write up a proposal, so here it > is. I've used the word `standards' everywhere instead of `policy'; I > think this would be a good renaming, because it would emphasise that > we're trying to do tec

Revised policy process - proposal

2000-04-01 Thread Ian Jackson
In the IRC discussion I said I would write up a proposal, so here it is. I've used the word `standards' everywhere instead of `policy'; I think this would be a good renaming, because it would emphasise that we're trying to do technical things rather than politics ... DRAFT Standards Process

New policy process document can be seen at http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/policy-process/

2000-03-22 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, The updated policy update process, which is what we use currently, has been updated, then language changed from the proposal document, and clarified (the BTS section is no longer an add-on, but incorporated in the document itself. Hopefully, this makes the process less opaq