[I've cc'ed you, guessing that you don't read debian-www; hope that's OK.] On Sat, May 15, 2004 at 01:04:13PM +0800, John wrote: > There are some things, sadly, that Debian doesn't do well. > > I filed a bug report, and the maintainer closed it, disagreeing with my > assessment of the problem. He courteously suggested I follow up with the > technical committee.
Hm, I'm not sure I'd have redirected a non-developer user to the TC as a first resort, but hey. > Good idea, I thought, so off to www.debian.org, click on "contact us." > > Hmm, nothing there but at the bottom, "We also have a complete list of > different jobs and e-mails to use > <http://www.debian.org/intro/organization> to contact various parts of > the organization." Okay, click on that and there I thought I found the > pot of gold: > # /current/ Martin Michlmayr > # Technical Committee <http://www.debian.org/devel/tech-ctte> -- > <debian-ctte@lists.debian.org <mailto:debian-ctte@lists.debian.org>> > > Beauty. Sent mail off to that address and got this reply: > "You are not subscribed to this list, so your submission was rejected. > Please subscribe to the list first and then repost your message." [...] > PS If you really don't think you can open this address to everyone, then > how about letting the bug reporting system handle it? I could just as > easily have opened a but report against, say, technical-committe and we > could discuss the matter and maybe find an amicable resolution or at > least a clearer understanding. Ah, now, if you'd followed the link to http://www.debian.org/devel/tech-ctte that you quote above ... :-) It's got a brief document on how to refer questions to the committee. 2. Write up a summary of the disagreement, preferably agreeing it with your opponent, and send it to the bug tracking system. Reassign the bug report to the pseudo-package tech-ctte. If there is no bug for the dispute yet, file one. Hope that helps, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]