On Thu, Feb 07, 2013 at 01:55:11AM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > On a personal note, I'm unsure how we came up with a situation where a > single maintainer can *actively* stall a release… Not caring about the > release process put into place years ago is a thing. Stopping people > from fixing problems created by such carelessness is another one… Speaking as an ex-RM, I think the answer here is that it used to be that when a maintainer made such an upload (and it did happen), we would revert it without hesitation and without apology. I'm having a hard time deciding, with my TC member hat on, if I think this is actually an ok thing to do. But whether or not it's ok, I do think I would still do it today if I were in your position on the grounds that it's easier to ask forgiveness than to ask permission, and asking explicit permission from every maintainer who is in a position to become a critical blocker for the release is a good way to make sure releases don't happen. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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