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Re: General Resolution: Declassification of debian-private list archives



On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 08:54:03AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Debian Project Secretary:
> 
> >     In accordance with principles of openness and transparency, Debian
> >     will seek to declassify and publish posts of historical or ongoing
> >     significance made to the Debian Private Mailing List.
> >
> >     This process will be undertaken under the following constraints:
> >
> >     * The Debian Project Leader will delegate one or more volunteers
> >       to form the debian-private declassification team. 
> 
> If I read the constitution correctly, you cannot decide such a thing
> by GR.

Just for clarity, by "such a thing", you mean "order the DPL to do
something", right?

First of all, I do think we can, per 4.1.3 (as others have already
pointed out). However, I don't think that is relevant; "Debian will seek
to do foo" doesn't mean "Debian will do foo", and "This process will be
undertaken under the following constraints" means "if done, this is how
it'll be done". In other words, I don't think it's a violation of the
text if we eventually end up not doing it.

That being said, I don't think that's relevant either, since presumably
the people who proposed the GR in the first place will probably be
willing to help out in its actual implementation, at least initially so
(when most of the work will have to be done).

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