On Tue, 15 Nov 2005, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 07:01:16PM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: > > I would suggest that declassification of posts affected by a GR be put > > on hold if a proposal is made for a GR while the GR process takes > > place [since the absolute minimum time that a GR can take is 2 weeks.] > > 4.2.2.1 does cover this, but getting 10 developers to sponsor on short > > notice may be difficult. > > If you can't get 10 people to sponsor it in two weeks, doesn't that > mean you probably can't get enough people to vote for it either? My main concern would be that you'd have to look at it rapidly to figure out what messages were being freed and remember what you said in them. [I know that it would take me a while to get around to doing that if I actually cared about anything that I had sent to -private being released...] > Although I guess that'd do away with the "immediate procedural > vote". The other side is that a GR can take arbitrarily long -- > first by repeatedly doing amendments to delay the start of the > discussion period, then by delaying the CFV... Right; perhaps some limited hold on the decision for specific messages (2 weeks after a proposal made with in the 2 week window) unless 10 (2K) developers have seconded. [The main reason why I suggest it is because the decision isn't readily reversible, whereas most other things we decide are.] > Maybe Manoj's suggestion is enough to make the 10-seconds to delay > satisfactory? Most likely; really just depends on how limited the class of people who can block posts being published is... Don Armstrong -- Unix, MS-DOS, and Windows NT (also known as the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly). -- Matt Welsh http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu
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