Hello, On Wed 30 Oct 2019 at 12:16PM -07, Russ Allbery wrote: > It's not clear to me whether we need a faster policy *process* or if we > just need more hands, but I completely agree that the current policy > process is too slow. I haven't had much time to work on it for about five > years; if it weren't for Sean, it would have stalled entirely. We still > don't have good documentation of triggers in Policy, and I think there are > major gaps in the documentation of multi-arch. :( My working assumption is that the problem of not having enough people interested in writing patches strongly outweighs any slowness inherent in the process we use, however... > If anyone reading this has thought about working on Policy and has been > driven away or turned off by something, please reach out either publicly > on the list or privately to me (and I suspect Sean would be happy to hear > from you too). I'd love to know what drove you away, and think about > whether there's anything we can do about it. Deciding what changes to > make involves some necessary social wrangling, and that may be the hardest > obstacle, but even hearing specifics about that would be helpful. ... I, likewise, would be grateful for people's experiences, and am certainly open to making process simplifications/changes. -- Sean Whitton
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