>>"Branden" == Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> writes:
Branden> I'm willing to recognize the decision of the Technical
Branden> Committee as binding if Anthony is. Is a vote in the works?
I'll let other memebers of the ctte take some time to respond
to my opinions.
Branden> This issue to my mind is what degree of discretion a package
Branden> maintainer is permitted to exercise over the bugs assigned
Branden> to his package. In the past, the amount of discretion
Branden> afforded the package maintainer was greater. I have been in
Branden> disputes over bug severity with package maintainers before
Branden> -- as the submitter and in the past the package maintainer's
Branden> discretion has been regarded as sacrosanct, or nearly so.
The current matter is being treated as a technical dispute
between two developers; and in cases like this, no general rule ("The
person who invokes the ctte is always right", or "The maintainer is
always right") make sense. Bug severities are a technical, though
sometimes subjective, decisions; and the severity ought to be decided
on the technical merits, on a case by case basis.
I am hoping that these disputes are rare, and can in most
cases be resolved amicably, or at least following adjudication by the
tech ctte. I would rather not set down rules of enforcement until we
are sure we actually need to (at least, wearing my ctte hat).
manoj
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