Don Armstrong dijo [Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 06:06:59PM -0700]: > I think this discussion is great and good to have; thanks for starting it!
I completely concur. > As a point of order, the TC isn't responsible for deciding whether bugs > are RC or not. That responsibility belongs with the Release Managers. > > [I don't think that should stop the TC from facilitating the decision > and the baseline being enshrined in policy so the RMs can rely on it to > decide whether it is RC or not.] As we are at DebConf (from which most of the participants of this thread so far are sorely missed), we have been exchanging some heigher-bandwidth interactions. I feel you are expressing the consensus we have found so far informally. Thing is, the release managers have not been invested formally of this power - But I think this is the way to be pursued. I quite liked Ian's proposal of introducing "supported" and "reasonable" as long-standing concepts that could be enshrined in our basic documents (i.e. constitution) and in delegations. That way, they could be rephrased - The Release Team delegation's task description can then include keeping an updated qualifications for supported build requirements, and thus, for determining whether a bug report regarding the minimum characteristics of a system, determine whether the FTBFS bugs it generates are RC or not. [ I would like to write more, but.... Well, three beers are already in my system, as it is customary by 22:30 at DebConf. ]
