Re: Let's close down the QA committee
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 12:59:57PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> Le Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 06:24:07AM -0400, Michael Stone écrivait:
> > On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 05:00:36AM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> > > Who has the authority to remove a package in this state, and forestall
> > > angry complaints should the maintainer come back some years in the
> > > future? Well, the QA committee clearly does.
> >
> > Not really. The QA committee was never given any such authority.
>
> The QA committee was designed to play such a role. Sorry.
The committee may have been designed that way, but it never had any
more authority to act than any maintainer already has. (IOW, a QA
committee action would be no less subject to bitching & second guessing
than a consensus decision on debian-qa@lists or even an arbitrary
decision by an ftp archive maintainer.)
--
Mike Stone
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