On Mon, 08 Sep 2014, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Don Armstrong <[email protected]>, 2014-09-05, 10:04: > >If anything more than a warning occurs, it is announced on > >debian-private@, which enables Debian Developers to review the actions > >that listmaster@ has taken, and override them via GR. > > Let's be frank: GR is such a heavyweight process, that it's > impractical for overriding "small" decisions like this one.
This is by design; the people who make decisions in Debian are the people who do the work. > The little cynic in me says the GR wouldn't happen even if majority of > DDs thought this ban was unwarranted. Why waste your precious time > fighting, so that a guy you've never heard before would have the right > to deliver bad jokes? All it takes to start a GR is 5 DDs, and 15 DDs to meet quorum. If there aren't 5 DDs who are willing to make the DDs, and 15 DDs who are willing to vote, then it's unlikely that there was actually a majority. After all, for at least the listmaster team, there are already more than 5 DDs on the team... -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com "Them as can do has to do for them as can't. And someone has to speak up for them as have no voices." -- Grandma Aching in _The Wee Free Men_ by Terry Pratchett p227 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
