Re: Policy process
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> [...]
>
> I've now done a bit of research about this, prompted by the fact that
> when I visited -policy in my newsreader today for the first time in a
> few days there seemed to be very little of any use and a lot of noise.
> [...]
Since I'm in part responsible for the noise, I hereby apologize for my
recent mistakes regarding management of the bug system.
I think the problem you perceive would be alliviated by making
some changes in the BTS itself. Example: I would like it *not*
to be fault-tolerant regarding wrong commands when those commands
refer to bugs against the `debian-policy' package. If you send a
message containing a wrong command, the BTS should ideally reject all
commands in that message and bounce it to the person who issued the
wrong commands (me, in this case :-).
Also, maybe we need features the BTS system does not currently
support. Something like a "Debian Policy Tracking System".
We could implement a system in which "I-second-this"-messages
go to the DPTS and are automatically Cc:ed to the person who
made a proposal, so that he knows when to change the status of the
proposal.
Instead of changing the bug title from "proposal" to "amendment" and
such, the proposal could be in a series of different "states". Anybody could
monitor the state of a give proposal by looking at the DPTS web pages,
and the debian-policy list would be only for discussing the technical
details.
Would this serve to reduce the amount of "junk"?
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