Re: Advice for how to make new things policy (was: ':any' syntax in package names in jessie/sid Packages)
On Mon, 21 Apr 2014, Charles Plessy wrote:
> things are too slow or not happening is the lack of manpower. See for example
> the documentation of the Dpkg triggers: we miss only one single Debian
> Developer to review the discussion and the patch in #582109 (I even offered to
> go piece by piece, see message #209 in the thread). Yet, it has been more than
> a year that out of our hundreds of active developers, nobody had time or
> interest to do this.
Nobody *who really knows how triggers work*, you mean. Otherwise some of
the random DDss that hang around debian-policy, like yours thruly, would
already have seconded it.
This is the important point to keep in mind: we rarely [should be never]
second what we don't understand. We won't second something that we cannot
judge to be correct or not, especially when the details *matter*.
> accelerate the incorporation in the Policy by taking the lead: submit a patch,
> restart the discussion when it loses momentum, and ask DDs to review the patch
> if nobody spontaneously volunteer. The only thing you can not do is to decide
Indeed. It helps a *GREAT* *DEAL* if the people who actually designed
and/or implemented the feature shows up to write the documentation, or to
second it.
So far, it looks like that won't be a problem for multiarch, so it should
have a much easier time getting into policy...
--
"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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