Re: Thinking about Delegating Decisions about Policy

[Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org>]

>>>>> "Sean" == Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> writes:

    Sean> Hello Sam,
    Sean> On Fri 10 May 2019 at 03:57PM -04, Sam Hartman wrote:

    >> What are people's thoughts about this?
    >> 
    >> Will this approach work for the TC and policy editors?

    Sean> I think that the concrete suggestion you're making is that
    Sean> when a question that comes before the T.C. is something that
    Sean> could be solved by patching the Policy Manual, the T.C. should
    Sean> respond to the question by opening a bug against the Policy
    Sean> Manual, and suspending the T.C. bug until it becomes clear
    Sean> whether or not that debian-policy bug is going to reach
    Sean> consensus?

That's an over simplification, but it's approximately correct.

I'm saying that this is an approach the TC could use, rather than an
approach that the TC should use.  I'd hope the TC would evaluate whether
they thought it would be productive rather than blindly using any
procedure.
Similarly, I'm hoping that in such a case individual TC members might
consider being involved in the policy process where appropriate.

--Sam