On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 10:45:25PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > or the tech-ctte's involvement in technical improvement of Debian before > > a conflict exists. > > Well, with my Policy delegate hat on, I'd certainly welcome more help in > that area, but on the other hand I'm not sure I see any specific need for > the tech-ctte as such to get involved. What's needed here more than > anything else is simply more *people* who are actively doing more *work*, > not more formal authority. > > For example, there are currently insufficient Policy proposal reviewers > active on debian-policy to even reach seconding thresholds on anything > other than the most obvious or important proposals. > > Some of this problem rests with me for not more actively soliciting help. > I'm working on fixing that, although currently I prioritize my work as a > Lintian maintainer over my work as a Policy delegate and Policy has been > losing to Lintian frequently lately.
I think for most people it's unclear what the status of the various bugs/proposals is. I think the recent changes to the BTS you did should atleast make it more clear. I also think that the process is not clear to everybody. There is an policy-process.txt, but that doesn't seem to be current. From Anthony's mail about the delegation: | AIUI, they'll be updating the policy-process document fairly soon to | make it clear how other people can contribute to policy, and I believe | that at least Russ and Marga will be spending some time doing some more | routine policy tasks to improve their understanding of policy related | issues. I know some other folks have already expressed interest in helping | out on policy related tasks, and I'm pretty sure the policy team would | appreciate your assistance, and be glad to offer suggestions on what | forms your help might take. [...] | only includes the authority to create policy [...] | In so far as I was concerned that the policy delegation was being | used to avoid working towards a consensus on technical policy, I've | been reassured by subsequent discussion both on the -project and -vote | lists and off-list that no one has any intention of letting that happen. | The new policy team have my full confidence and support in their technical | decisions and in their ability to help others contribute to policy, | both individually and collectively. I think if you asked for some help where you need it, people will try and help. It's just unclear to me how I can help. Kurt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]