Dear project members, 6 years after the last one, it's time to update the delegation for the Debian Policy Editors, that is the team of delegates responsible for guiding the policy change process on the -policy list. The changes to the team are: - Andrew McMillan, Colin Watson, and Manoj Srivastava step down as policy editors. They deserve many thanks from all of us, for their long running contributions to the Debian Policy manual and process. - Charles Plessy, after several years of well-respected and appreciated contributions to the Debian Policy via the -policy list, becomes an editor. Good luck to him for the important work ahead. (Andreas Barth, Bill Allombert, and Russ Allombert have confirmed their interest in working as editors and remain on board.) Below, you can find a formal delegation, listing all current policy editors. The delegation comes with a task description, prepared in collaboration with the editors, which details the responsibility of the delegates with respect to the broader team active on the -policy list (executive summary: the editors interpret consensus, rather than deciding in full autonomy). For more information about the Debian Policy team, have a look at the team page: http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Policy Cheers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Policy Editors delegation ========================= I hereby appoint the following developers as Policy Editors: - Andreas Barth (aba) - Bill Allombert (ballombe) - Charles Plessy (plessy) - Russ Allbery (rra) Any previous Debian Policy delegation, not explicitly listed above, is revoked. The delegation is not time-limited. It will be effective until further changes by present or future DPLs. Task Description ---------------- The Debian Policy team is responsible for maintaining and coordinating updates to the Debian Policy Manual and all the other policy documents released as part of the "debian-policy" package. The Debian Policy Editors: - Guide the work on the Debian Policy Manual and related documents as a collaborative process where developers review and second or object to proposals, usually on the debian-policy mailing list [1]. [1]: https://lists.debian.org/debian-policy/ - Count seconds and weight objections to proposals, to determine whether they have reached sufficient consensus to be included, and accept consensual proposals. - Reject or refer to the Technical Committee proposals that fail to reach consensus. - Commit changes to the version control system repository used to maintain the Debian Policy Manual and related documents. - Maintain the "debian-policy" package. As package maintainers, they have the last word on package content, releases, bug reports, etc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . zack@upsilon.cc . . . . o . . . o . o Maître de conférences . . . . . http://upsilon.cc/zack . . . o . . . o o Debian Project Leader . . . . . . @zack on identi.ca . . o o o . . . o . « the first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club »
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