Re: Conflicts between developers and policy

[Raul Miller <rdm@test.legislate.com>]

Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@datasync.com> wrote:
>  Hmm. I do think this leads to a dilution of technical discipline. And
>  we already have way too many open bug reports; people do not seem to
>  want to fix ``real'' bugs, and ``mere'' policy reports would be seen
>  as fluff.

Policy is a kind of statement of our understanding of our ideals or
goals. You know very well that people already have a great respect for
debian policy -- it's the clearest explanation of what needs to be done.

I don't think that we can make policy enforcement "stronger" except by
picking at trivial issues -- we already have a variety of ways where
someone can pick up from a maintainer who isn't able to properly deal
with a package.

Anyways, before you go trying to fix the "too many outstanding bug
reports" problem, don't you think you should do some work on finding
out why the situation exists? [This is the first time I've heard that
"it's because policy isn't enforced strongly enough", so I think that's
bogus.]

-- 
Raul


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