Re: Re: Communication of technical committee decisions (Re: [CTTE#614907] Resolution of node/nodejs conflict)

[Filipus Klutiero <chealer@gmail.com>]

Hi Thibaut,

Thibaut Paumard wrote:
> Le 21/07/12 22:35, Filipus Klutiero a écrit :
> >  Hi Arno,
> >
> >  Arno Töll wrote:
> >>  Hi,
> >>
> >>  On 18.07.2012 02:07, Filipus Klutiero wrote:
> >>>  Thank you, but I would appreciate if debian-devel-announce
> >>>  would stay dedicated to important announcements which may be
> >>>  useful for a wide range of developers.
> >>
> >>  While you are right in general I beg to disagree that tech-ctte
> >>  resolutions do affect a small notion of developers only.
> >
> >  Although my message did imply that *some* tech-ctte resolutions
> >  only affect a small portion of developers, I did not intend to say
> >  that *all* tech-ctte resolutions do.
> >
> >>  Thus, I appreciate they are sent to d-d-a now. While the node
> >>  naming conflict may not affect too many developer directly,
> >>  implications resolved by any tech-ctte decision do per
> >>  constitutional powers granted to that institution.
> >
> >  Well, they may, but I don't see any here.
>
> Come on, do you remember the thread about the node/nodejs name
> conflict?

No

> [...]
>
> This case will make jusrisprudence: next time a similar conflict
> arise, we will now in advance how the tech-ctte is likely to rule.

The approach taken here isn't very unique. The only news is that this 
approach was judged to be the best in this specific case.

> Just take it as it is: _every_ decision made by the tech-ctte _is_ an
> important announcement (and there's still not to many, there have
> probably been already more mails in this thread than the tech-ctte has
> issued decisions to d-d-a this year).

Hum, a decision is not an announcement, no.