On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 03:47:46AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 03:57:19PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > > > I believe Anthony Towns has said that he now believes his earlier release > > > > policy to be in error. > > > No. It was an error to try to set the release policy myself, rather than > > > tangling it up in the bureaucracy of getting a tech ctte ruling or GR > > > in the first place. Not a mistake I'm going to make again. > > Told you so (way back when you first introduced the policy of > > deliberately including non-free stuff in sarge). > > Stating the policy _that_ time, however, wasn't a problem at all. > > It's interesting, though, that not only did no one else propose a GR to > support that policy at the time, but you didn't propose a GR to set the > policy you believed was correct either -- even though you opposed the > decision, apparently thought that it was against the social contract, > and you're now claiming that you thought the GR process was the right > way to make that decision at the time anyway. I had other priorities (specifically the last few non-electoral votes we've had), and at the time the voting system was still fucked. This was on my list of priorities to come after revising the DFSG; circumstances have merely forced the issue sooner. It takes a really bloody long time to get things of this magnitude done within Debian. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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