Re: Idea for Policy expert reviewer list
>>>>> "Russ" == Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> writes:
Russ> What do people think? Helpful innovation, or just extra
Russ> bookkeeping that isn't worth the effort? If people do think
Russ> this is a good idea, I'll bring it up on debian-devel for
Russ> further discussion (and then, if we adopted it, it would be a
Russ> debian-devel-announce post).
I think I'd recommend waiting until you get burned a couple times by not
having the review before implementing something like this.
I've watched the expert review process in the IETF become more involved
over the years, and I think it's important to be careful of against process
complexity increases. Mind I think the IETF complexity increases may be
justified: the impact of standards errors today is bigger than it was in
2000.
And it may be that we've reached the point to start down that road in
Debian.
But I'd prefer to have concrete things we're accomplishing with a change
like this. They might look like:
* I'm an expert in foo area, but debian-policy is too much traffic, and
I'm struggling to keep up
or
* We didn't get enough review and we made a mistake with the bar
change. We have experts who would have done the review if asked but
do not read debian-policy.
--Sam
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