On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 02:02:32AM +0000, Henning Makholm wrote: > > Ultimately, a maintainer's bug list belongs to the maintainer, > > subject to review by the Technical Committee. > The Tecnical Committee is known to want nothing to do with BTS > procedures; see #97671. Curiously, in that case Anthony Towns seemed > to be far from thinking that bug lists belong to the maintainer. > Perhaps the true principle is that bug lists belong to whomever holds > the BTS-exclusion gun (or other appropriately large artillery)? Some things are the maintainer's prerogative, and some are not. Deciding whether a bug is release-critical is not a maintainer's prerogative; nor is closing bug reports for outstanding RC issues. Closing out wishlist bugs that the maintainer disagrees with, OTOH, *is* a maintainer's prerogative. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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