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

[Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org>]

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:
> 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.

I'm pretty sure Charles knows this very well, but good intentions alone
do not justify all (in-)actions done with them. 

> 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.

I don't think it's worth much in the context of this bug, but since you
started it, and since I don't want Charles to become even more
frustrated because of additional, vocal after-the-fact opposition like
yours: looking through the discussion I think Bill is blocking other
people's work, and Charles is completely right in his anger. I hope the
ctte will find time for this soon.


Best,
Nikolaus

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