Re: Vote on NMU/commiting guidelines

[Tobias Hansen <tobias.han@gmx.de>]

On 08/22/12 20:15, Martin Erik Werner wrote:
> I think it might be good to clarify {IF this is the intention (I think
> it should be)} that "act on objections" is not limited to the 5-day
> period, if someone disagrees with you after 7 days instead (for some
> reason or other), there's no hint that you're "free to ignore" at that
> point.
>
> Worth mentioning here is that when I wrote it I did intentionally word
> "act on objections" very diffusely, so that it could potentially mean
> anything from "friendly discussion" to "flamewar on debian-devel", just
> to point out that objections should NOT be ignored (is that evident? Is
> that good?).

Don't know, I think the formulation is ok. I see the guidelines as a 
means to encourage contributions, so we don't have to go all the way 
from no rules to super detailed rules. It would be nice if interest in 
maintaining these packages would be so high that people argue over how 
to do it. :)