Re: Managing Frozen text when the TC Decides Policy

2019-05-15 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello Sam, On Sat 11 May 2019 at 01:24PM -04, Sam Hartman wrote: > I agree that it would generally be unfortunate if we had policy text > that could not be changed by the policy process. I can see rare > situations where it might happen: we might have legal advice requiring > specific text be in

Re: Thinking about Delegating Decisions about Policy

2019-05-15 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello Sam, On Fri 10 May 2019 at 03:57PM -04, Sam Hartman wrote: > What are people's thoughts about this? > > Will this approach work for the TC and policy editors? I think that the concrete suggestion you're making is that when a question that comes before the T.C. is something that could be so

Re: Thinking about Delegating Decisions about Policy

2019-05-15 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello Ian, On Mon 13 May 2019 at 02:50PM +01, Ian Jackson wrote: >> we delegated managing the process to the policy editors, but not the >> actual policy decisions. They make consensus calls. They use their >> judgment in a lot of ways. > > That is a decision *of* the policy editors. When the

Bug#923450: tech-ctte: requirements for being pre-dependency of bin:init

2019-05-15 Thread Simon McVittie
On Thu, 28 Feb 2019 at 12:06:15 +, Dmitry Bogatov wrote: > currently, inclusion of new init system into Debian requires inclusion into > pre-dependency of bin:init package, which is unsatisfactory. > > As can be followed in #838480, current practice puts maintainer of any > new init system t