On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 11:47:55PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 02:43:52 +0200, Wouter Verhelst <wouter@grep.be> said:
> > It's been a while since the last mail on this proposal, which
> > reached the required number of seconders ages ago. I'm assuming the
> > proposal has been accepted now, and turn this into an amendment. For
> > reference, the patch as it should be applied is as follows:
>
> Sorry, lack of discussion does not imply consensus.
Of course not; but I'd say lack of opposition does. There had been none,
AFAIK. I didn't take Don's amendment into account when writing that
previous patch because I hadn't seen many people agree with his
suggestion; but I didn't see a mail saying "I don't like this" from him
either.
> And getting seconds gets you into the proposal stage, and not into
> the accepted amendment status.
That's not what policy-process.txt says[1], but I'll take your word for
it.
> There are still problems with this proposal: it would make all
> affected packages instantly buggy (to be sure, a normal bug, and not
> an RC bug), but we do tend to frown upon that.
(checks) Right. Grmbl. Okay.
> I propose that this be amended to initially just recommend
> that packages create the readme file; and then when that has become
> the way things are being done, then we can move to should/must.
Accepted.
> I would also be more comfortable if there were some indication
> of a wider agreement (more aol posts, perhaps?), but I would take a
> lack of protests as the silent majority being behind this proposal.
That's what I did; there were no protests, so I took that as a silent
majority being behind the proposal.
[1] When a proposal in the BTS has acquired two seconds (apart from the
proposer), it becomes a formal amendment. The bug severity is raised
to "normal" and the bug is retitled to _"[AMENDMENT DD/MM/YYYY] ..."_.
in policy-process.txt on lines 163-165. I forgot about the
severity, but oh well.
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