"Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski" <[email protected]> writes: > No dia 16 de Novembro de 2010 21:18, Philip Brown <[email protected]> > escreveu: >> On 11/16/10, Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski <[email protected]> wrote: >>> No dia 16 de Novembro de 2010 17:00, Philip Brown <[email protected]> >>> escreveu: >>> >>> How does the release manager know what's the best for the user? It's >>> not a rhetorical question. I'm interested to know in the process. >> >> Maciej, we've been round this particular discussion at least 3 times >> before :-/ Previously, you have been asking with an eye to "well, tell >> me the process, and then we'll automate it". >> To which the reply has been, is, and always will be, "you cant >> automate EVERYTHING. Certainly, the things that can be, we should. But >> there are things that cannot be". > [...] > This way, you basically reserve the right to say whatever you please > on any package you please and always claim it's a case by case basis.
This is the exact definition of the term "discretionary" > [...] I don't want > my packages to be at the mercy of a single person who can make stuff > up as they go along. Is that reasonable? Again: the maintainer is the release manager and tools verify and validate predefined policies. Dominique Laigle made up a nice process diagram about what we agreed at the summer summit (sorry again). -- Peter _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers .:: This mailing list's archive is public. ::.
