>>"Branden" == Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Branden> I'm willing to recognize the decision of the Technical Branden> Committee as binding if Anthony is. Is a vote in the works? I'll let other memebers of the ctte take some time to respond to my opinions. Branden> This issue to my mind is what degree of discretion a package Branden> maintainer is permitted to exercise over the bugs assigned Branden> to his package. In the past, the amount of discretion Branden> afforded the package maintainer was greater. I have been in Branden> disputes over bug severity with package maintainers before Branden> -- as the submitter and in the past the package maintainer's Branden> discretion has been regarded as sacrosanct, or nearly so. The current matter is being treated as a technical dispute between two developers; and in cases like this, no general rule ("The person who invokes the ctte is always right", or "The maintainer is always right") make sense. Bug severities are a technical, though sometimes subjective, decisions; and the severity ought to be decided on the technical merits, on a case by case basis. I am hoping that these disputes are rare, and can in most cases be resolved amicably, or at least following adjudication by the tech ctte. I would rather not set down rules of enforcement until we are sure we actually need to (at least, wearing my ctte hat). manoj -- For certain people, after fifty, litigation takes the place of sex. Gore Vidal Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/> 1024R/C7261095 print CB D9 F4 12 68 07 E4 05 CC 2D 27 12 1D F5 E8 6E 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C
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