Hi Daniel!
On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Daniel Stone wrote:
> Hear, hear. Same goes for policy, as well.
>
> There was a thread a while ago about someone who wanted to
> join and be a policy guy; the response was more or less, no,
> you can do policy from outside Debian. But, what use is
> being in policy when you can't even *vote*?
IIRC the story was that he wanted to do policy without doing
packaging (or having experience with packaging).
*searches*
| From: cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)
| Subject: Re: AM Final Report for Beiad Dalton
| To: debian-newmaint-discuss@lists.debian.org
| Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 16:45:12 +0100
| Message-Id: <E14hZBA-0006IN-00@riva.ucam.org>
[..]
| Guillaume Morin <guillaume@morinfr.org> wrote:
| >He showed that 1) He is interested in policy issues, 2) he plans to help
| >us. It is an important issue.
|
| While people do need to be developers in order to propose and second
| policy bugs, I don't think we ought to be bringing people into the
| project simply to work on policy: our policy people should have
| experience of their subject matter, otherwise it's just so much
| unimplementable hot air (note that Manoj, Julian, Santiago, Anthony, et
| al are experienced packagers). To that end, Beiad's packaging skills
| seem more relevant.
So those cases are not really compareable.
yours,
peter
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