On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 07:54:52PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Well, just like the release team apparently has the right to > arbitrarily overrule policy and decide when serious bugs are not > serious -- as opposed to not RC -- yup. > I do think that the ftp team decides what gets into the > archive. They do this however they choose -- and I respect that decision. > Just like the release team decides what gets ihnto the > release. By whatever means they chose. Where the release team policy on RC bugs has diverged from Policy, it has been to *relax* enforcement of Policy requirements on packages already in the archive, and not remove packages from testing for these bugs. The release team does not obligate anyone to *not* fix such bugs in their packages; it does not *prohibit* developers from doing NMUs to fix those bugs. It's within the power of any developer to decide that a bug is important enough to them that they'll fix it themselves before release, you don't need the release team's blessing to do so - unlike trying to get packages past the ftp team's new rules and into the archive. This is a difference between imposing new rules, and not forcing maintainers to comply with rules. > >> We knew this decision by the ftp team was coming for a while, and will > >> require checking against our other documents and probably changes to the > >> severity of various rules. > > And I objected before when this was first proposed that the ftp team > > should not be auto-rejecting from the archive for any issues that are > > not violations of Policy "must" requirements. > By the same token, the release team should not be accepting > packages intot he release that ciolate the MUST requirements, neh? Or > is the release team more equal than the ftp team? Only you would think that this is "the same token". > All delegates feel like they are god, when it comes to their > part of the process. Speak for yourself. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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