Dear candidates, At the end of 2005, the Debian Project passed a General Resolution [0] to declassify posts made to the debian-private mailing list. The GR specified that posts that are at least three years old will be considered for publishing. It also specified that the DPL will appoint a team to handle this task automatically. [0] http://www.debian.org/vote/2005/vote_002 The three-year point for posts sent after the GR was passed will occur during the upcoming DPL term. To fulfil the requirements in the GR, the next DPL will have to appoint the declassification team, a documented procedure has to be set up, and software probably has to be written to automate the task to some extent. The GR has rather specific instructions about how the posts may be declassified, including notifications to the posters and pre-screening by the developers. By my count, there are 8520 messages to consider at this time, and of course more to come. If you were elected DPL for the next term, what would you do about this GR and when? How would you ensure that the declassification can happen in a timely manner and fulfil all the requirements? What would your declassification team look like -- how many members would it have, how would they be selected and would you impose any structure among them? Thanks, -- Fabian Fagerholm <fabbe@paniq.net>
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