Bug#707851: Please resume discussion on #707851 or defer decision to the TC.

[Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>]

Dear Andreas, Bill, Jonathan, and Russ,

I am contacting you in your role as Policy Editors, about bug #707851.

After almost one year of work, discussion and consensus-building, a proposal
was made to describe the FreeDesktop menu system in the Policy, and to alter
the description of the Debian menu system to reflect the fact that it is not
used by default on Stable and Unstable's default desktop, and that in Unstable
it is not installed by default anymore.

The proposal was seconded by enough Debian Developers and Russ allowed for
applying it to the Policy.  Bill then opposed and reverted the changes after
the discussion ended.

Unfortunately, Bill has been unavailable for discussing a resolution of this
conflict, and this has the same consequence as a final veto, which I do not
think is appropriate as a last-minute action for a proposal that has been
debated and accepted.

I am therefore asking you to resume the discussion on #707851, or to defer the
decision to the technical comittee.

Have a nice day,

Charles

-- 
Charles Plessy
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan.