On Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:16:34 -0700, Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> wrote: > I therefore call for an immediate vote on the following ballot. With votes from 7 of 8 committee members, all ranking A as their first preference, the outcome of this ballot is no longer in doubt, and we have met the required > 3:1 majority. The decision of the committee is: > A. While recognizing the substantial benefits of thorough code review, the > Technical Committee believes the goal of multiarch support in the > Debian wheezy release is sufficiently important as to warrant accepting > the current draft implementation into the archive, even if code review > by the primary dpkg C maintainer cannot be completed in time. However, > as much review as possible is strongly desired. > > The Technical Committee therefore overrides the decision of the dpkg > maintainer to require complete code review before upload of the > multiarch implementation in dpkg to the Debian archive and sets the > following upload dates: > > February 6th: upload to experimental for general testing > February 20th: upload to unstable > > For each of those deadlines, if no implementation of dpkg with > multiarch support has been uploaded to the archive for that > distribution by that date, Raphaël Hertzog is empowered by the > Technical Committee to upload a version of dpkg with multiarch support > to that distribution. The upload may be done on or after that date, > when, in his judgement, the dpkg implementation meets the quality > standards expected for a Debian core package in those archive > distributions. > > The Technical Committee strongly encourages anyone with the required > knowledge to review the multiarch implementation proposed for upload > and provide the results of that review to the debian-dpkg list as soon > as possible so that the code can receive as much review as possible and > the results of that review can be incorporated into the code by those > dates. Similarly, the Technical Committee encourages as broad testing > and review of the experimental implementation as possible so that as > many bugs as possible can be resolved prior to uploading it to > unstable. Thank you again to Russ Allbery for help with the resolution text, and to my fellow committee members for prompt attention to this matter. Bdale
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