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

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

2006-09-18 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 11:43:18AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Copying the debian-policy list, since this conversation is basically about > that. > > Kurt Roeckx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I don't think policy changes need to be seconded. We have a policy team > > that should decide on w

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

2006-09-17 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 11:43:18AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Kurt Roeckx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I don't think policy changes need to be seconded. We have a policy team > > that should decide on what comes in policy and what not. Although, it > > more looks like it's just 1 person d

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 ``significant'' number of packages insta

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
On Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 05:42:34PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > 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

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. Here you go: DRAFT Standards