On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 8:47 AM, Harald Sitter <[email protected]> wrote: > Salut, > > TLDR: request for the council to discuss and vote on new policies document. > > The past couple of weeks I worked towards rewriting and updating our > current Kubuntu specific policies of which [1] is the result. > > As with all policies all of it now requires approval by the Kubuntu > Council which I propose should be done on the list as meetings are > tedious to organize and some of the policies might require length > discussions (or hopefully not). > > For the better part these policies are either aligned with current > practise that we had not previously put into written policy or solve > problems to which we never had a best practise solution. Completely > new policies are marked with ((NEW)), all others were derived from > existing policies. > > New key policies: > > * Dead Upstream - how to deal with software that is unmaintained upstream. > > * Handlers - list of contact people for various important things > (requested by JR). > > * Kubuntu Council - I did not find a standing policy document on the > council, one may feel free to enhance it. > > * Kubuntu Teams - describing all Kubuntu teams, how to get it and what > they are there for (requested by JR) > > * Patching - while originally written 3 years ago the patch policy was > never actually approved so this is a slighly refined version of the > previous one. however equally restrictive in what patches can or > cannot do. > > * Stable Updates/Misc - when one may SRU software that is not covered > by our patch-update-exception (primarily KDE SC), it seeks to minimize > the amount of wasted time on SRUs that won't get verified. > > * Long Term Support - outlines what sets an LTS release apart from > other releases specifically for Kubuntu. > > Additionaly the bug triage policy has been changed to reflect what I > did for the past year or two (primarily streamlining over the previous > policy). > > The code style policy from Lucid has been dropped and instead a global > fallback policy was introduced making the upstream policies our > policies unless we have a policy of our own (e.g. upstream code style > and licensing policies apply now - again, what we have practised for > years anyway). > > [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kubuntu/Policies > > HS
Thanks for doing this, Harald. I've taken the liberty of fixing a few spelling and grammar errors. If the Council is now voting on these policies, I vote +1. Valorie -- kubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-devel
