Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 10:30:34PM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: >> Scripsit Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > The decision's delegated to the technical ctte; if you want to know >> > which GRs will ensure they will make the decision you want you'll need >> > to ask them. >> Brfore you said that you had delegated the matter to the technical >> committee *or* the developers, by general resolution. > > No, I don't have any ability to delegate things to the developer body > as a whole. But the developer body as a whole do have the ability to > overrule both myself (4.1.3) and the tech ctte (4.1.4), without me saying > or doing anything.
Anthony, we're going in circles. The developer body is preparing a GR in order to overrule your decision (some proposals at least). Obviously, a proposal: "We declare the RM's statement in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to be overruled" is not sufficient. We need a couple of more words for that. We are currently discussing which wording would be best. Among other things, your view on it is an important piece of information. When we ask you for this view, you refuse to, saying that it's the TC that will rule. For political reasons, I would prefer to settle this by a GR, not by a decision of the GR. Which seems to me to only be possible if you express your view on the matter. A GR which would not make things clear enough, so that a TC decision is still needed, is, hm, suboptimal. But if it is necessary... ********************** Although Anthony seems to have contradicted himself in the same mail, the only clear message from him that I could figure out was: He will delegate the decision to the Technical Committee, anyway. So, shouldn't we ask the Technical Committee for a decision on the matter first, before discussing what and when to vote? If the TC decides that sarge will be released with an exception, we do not need any of the sarge-specific GRs that have been proposed. What we still need to decide is whether we want a general procedure for such changes (Proposal E), and probably whether we want to revert the SC (Proposal D). But these GR could then be discussed and voted on without the pressure of the feeling that sarge's release relies on them. If the Technical Committee decides that sarge cannot be released with the old release policy under the current SC, we will have to vote on all proposed resolutions. However, this will not significantly slow down sarge's release (should an exception finally be accepted by GR), since the TC could be asked to decide on the effect of the proposals in advance (possibly even before voting starts). What do you think about this? -- Frank K�ster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie
