Bug#741573: Please decide on a reversion of commit 3785878 in the Policy's Git repository.

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Hi Charles,

Charles Plessy wrote:

>                                            In particular, in the absence of
> Bill's contribution to the resolution of our conflict, I am asking the TC to
> not discuss the menu systems and focus instead on correcting Bill's
> misbehaviour.
>
> What is at a stake here is not the Debian Menu system, it is the fact that in
> Debian, it takes 5 minutes for one person to block one year of effort and
> patience from multiple other persons.

Please take a step back, breathe, and remember that people on the policy
team probably have good intentions when doing their work.

For what it's worth, I think Bill made the right choice in reverting the
change and trying to find a variant that had consensus.  I don't think
he acted improperly.

Meanwhile I think you were acting in good faith in applying the change
in the first place.  Sometimes the presence or lack of consensus can
be hard to pin down.  But I think the menu system patch needed work,
people had said as much, and the work in setting policy in that area
wasn't done yet.

Thanks,
Jonathan