Bug#741573: Russ's role

[Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>]

On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 10:34:47AM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote:
> You said:
> > 
> > I think that what you wrote does not reflect what happened:
> > 
> Charles>  - Russ gave me the green light for committing the changes, see
> Charles>    <https://lists.debian.org/debian-policy/2014/02/msg00068.html>.  Only Policy
> Charles>    Editors can decide that a change will be committed, thus it is my understanding
> Charles>    that Russ, as a Policy Editor, judged that there was consensus.
> 
> Bill>This is not my understanding. It seemed clear that Russ did not have time to do
> Bill> such review but trusted you as former policy editor. However I really did not
> Bill> expect you to use commit right you should not have had anymore to
> Bill> force the isssue.
> 
> Hi.
> As a matter of fact finding.
> Russ's message, which Charles sites implies to me that Russ was swamped
> and didn't have time to do the commit.  By seconding, he had already
> done the review.

Seconding a bug does not imply doing a consensus search, even for a policy
editor.

Cheers,
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Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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