Re: Stepping down from Policy team

["Joe Smith" <unknown_kev_cat@hotmail.com>]

"Russ Allbery" <rra@debian.org> wrote in message 
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> Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> writes:
>
> > Hi folks,
> >
> >         In keeping with my gradual disengagement from the project, anre
> >  removing myself from positions that  bring me into contention with
> >  public facets of Debian, I am am now stepping down from the Policy
> >  team. This is bitter sweet, since I have been helping manage policy for
> >  a lot longer than I have been secretary (I think I took up policy after
> >  our last policy czar resigned abruptly for very similar reasons to why
> >  I am letting go, back in '98 or so).  If I decide to remain with the
> >  project, I guess I can always ask to join the team again, but at this
> >  point, I am not sure I want to do so.
>
> Debian Policy, from my first interactions with Debian, has been the one
> thing above all others that led me to decide that this was the project
> that I wanted to work on.  And for as long as I've known of Debian, you've
> been involved in guiding that process.  So in some sense, it was your work
> that brought me to the project in the first place.

Strongly agree. Whatever problems Debian has, Debian Policy is not one of 
them. Sure it has a few rough edges, but people almost never even condier 
debating Policy itself, since it is usually quite clear. Policy-related 
debates are almost always resticited to questions of "how do we fix this 
issue in Policy?", and the debates that do occur are almost always debates 
of the productive form. And policy related flamewars are nearly 
non-existant.

Policy Team is one of the only infrastructure teams to never be acused of 
being non-resposive, too slow, etc. (It is not physical infrastructure, but 
it is still more than a mere package maintenance team).