Re: Social Contract GR's Affect on sarge
On Mon, 3 May 2004 17:28:43 +0100, Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk> said:
> Well, there's certainly a lot of hot air. And the situation is
> rather unfortunate.
> It seems to me that:
> * The social contract as amended is unambiguous, and prevents the
> release of sarge as-is.
> Therefore:
> * The Developers must decide whether to waive or amend the social
> contract. If no waiver is forthcoming (3:1 supermajority, by my
> reading), then sarge will not be released.
> I'm pleased to see this discussion is happening and will probably
> result in a resolution in time. So:
> * The Release Manager should plan for such a resolution to either
> grandfather the existing situation, or permit the release of
> sarge some other way. To do anything else would be to prejudge
> the issue.
> * Since we are in something of a hurry, and there will be time to
> clarify the situation at more length later, IMO any grandfather
> resolution authorising the release of sarge should be as short as
> possible. IMO it would be a bad idea to write a long document
> `under the gun'. Any such grandfather resolution should probably
> delegate reasonably wide discretion about scope and
> interpretation to the Release Manager, the Project Leader, the
> Committee or some other similar person or body, to ensure that
> it's sufficient and we don't need _another_ GR.
I think we should not interfere in whatever solution the
developers come up with, since we are not actually involved as a
group in the solution process.
I also don't think there is any need to rush this solution --
and there does not seem to be any rushing going on anyway. The
current schedule is for the vote to finish around the end of the
month; and even under the most aggressive schedule Sarge was not set
to be released until well after that (the final d-i beta was supposed
to go out end of the month, and then the security team or someone was
to have a poke at things, unless my memory is playing tricks).
There is no reason that such a clause needs more than a day
or so to hammer out, indeed, I think they have been hammered out
quite well already. So there is no need to pontificate on how the
developers ought to be solving something we aredeciding to punt back
to the developers in the first place.
> Does anyone on the committee disagree with anything I've said above
> ?
Yes.
manoj
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