The proper place to announce GRs (was Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?))

[Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org>]

Hi -project,

On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 06:33:49PM +0200, Matthias Klumpp wrote:
> You do understand that we have procedured at Debian to handle stuff
> like GR proposals, right? And that procedure involves posting to
> debian-vote, so doing that was the right thing to do.

Whilst researching for a reply to a different post in this thread on -user (the
thread sadly spans at least three lists), I realised that the constitution
doesn't say where GRs should be announced, and I couldn't find any advice on
the subject in a scan over policy, either.

I think we should clearly indicate where GRs should be announced. ("Should", I
suppose I'm arguing, not "must").

In this particular case I saw the GR thread on -project, rather than -vote,
iirc.

Unless I'm mistaken, a change to Constitution (to include a reference to where
GRs should be posted) would need to be achieved via GR.

Alternatively, we could document it as a "should" in policy, although there may
not yet be an appropriate section to do so.

Does anyone have strong feelings on this?


-- 
Jonathan Dowland