>>>>> "Bill" == Bill Allombert <ballo...@debian.org> writes:
Bill> On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 10:08:04PM +0000, Sam Hartman wrote:
>> In March of 2014, Charles Plessy asked the Debian Technical
>> Committee to review one of the policy editors decisions to revert
>> changes to how policy talks about the Debian Menu and MIME
>> support. See http://bugs.debian.org/741573 for the TC process
>> and https://bugs.debian.org/707851. for the process within
>> debian-policy.
>>
>> One of the issues is the question of whether the Debian Policy
>> community reached consensus around the proposal. I've
>> investigated this question as part of trying to understand how I
>> will vote within the TC process.
Bill> I want to point out that I have split the menu policy changes
Bill> in 3 parts, so that the less controversial part could be
Bill> decided separately, see #742532. However nobody was
Bill> interested in seconding this. So I am let to believe there is
Bill> no actual consensus on this.
I agree that there doesn't seem to be consensus on your proposed split.
I don't think I can infer anything about the overall proposal's support
from lack of support for the split. As an example, if I had high
confidence that I could get consensus on the entire proposal, I would
not generally support handling the less contraversial parts first.
If you handle the less-controversial parts first, it's easy to get into
a situation where that's all you solve. When you do that because you
honestly can't get consensus on more than the less-controversial parts,
the process is working. However, sometimes those sort of splits can
create dynamics where you get less of a solution than you might hope.
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