On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 05:20:00PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > Evan Prodromou wrote: > >>>>>> "MR" == Mathieu Roy <yeupou@gnu.org> writes: > > MR> In my opinion, "serious objection" to Josselin Mouette > > MR> proposal have no ground if we are talking about procedure. > > Sorry, but I'm unaware of any other discussions joss@ has had with > > Ryan. I don't think a post on d-d really counts as making contact with > > the current maintainer. > Why precisely do you think *you* would be aware of such discussions? > According to the procedure quoted from the developers' reference, they can > take place privately. Discussing such matters publically is the only way the rest of the developer community has any hope of judging whether a hijack is called for. Neglecting to make one's communications with the maintainer public casts doubt on the justification for hijacking. Not to mention that communicating using official, public channels such as the BTS has been known to get better (or at least different) results than trying to communicate with maintainers privately. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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