Re: Working on debian developer's reference and "best packaging practices"
On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 03:48:28AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 06:11:46PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 08:02:50PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > > I'm concerned about this because when I tried passing over
> > > "release-critical policy issues" to the policy group, it didn't work. [..]
> > Strawman (to quote lots of others). As a concept, it's very good, but
> > as we discovered, the implementation was poor.
>
> As a concept it sucked, we just didn't realise it at the time. -policy
> isn't competent at judging which issues should be release critical. We
> didn't realise this before we tried, no we have tried and it's blatanly
> obvious.
>
> I'd suspect the reason it doesn't work is because there's no downside
> for -policy to making a rule a release-critical issue, compared to not
> doing it. You guys don't have to try to coerce people into fixing their
> RC bugs in a timely manner, nor throw out packages that don't have their
> RC bugs fixed, nor deal with the people who absolutely need the package.
Whatever you say.
Please note, however, the two distinct parts here:
(1) Deciding what's RC. I agree with you that this is the job of the
release manager. Rather you than me.
(2) Recording the decisions. That can either go in a separate
document as you describe, or in the body of policy in a clearly
marked way as I have suggested. As it is clear that you are the
only person who decides which issues are RC and which are not,
-policy won't make those decisions but only record the decisions
you have made.
But at present all of this is hypothetical.
Now back to real work.
Julian
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