Bug#741573: #741573: Menu Policy and Consensus

2015-08-29 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 02:38:50PM -0700, Nikolaus Rath wrote: Maybe discussion was the wrong word. What I mean is that for more than one year, any vote on this bug was prevented by the TC waiting for any one of its members to catch up on the discussion, articulate his concerns, write down a

Bug#741573: #741573: Menu Policy and Consensus

2015-08-28 Thread Sam Hartman
Ian == Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk writes: Ian Sam Hartman writes (Re: Bug#741573: #741573: Menu Policy and Ian Consensus): Having such serious objections that have not been adequately considered means you don't have rough consensus at least in the ways I

Bug#741573: #741573: Menu Policy and Consensus

2015-08-28 Thread Nikolaus Rath
On Aug 28 2015, Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk wrote: [ things about the menu system ] This really has become a farce. This issue been open for more than a year. Sam rephrased the entire issue earlier this year in terms of consensus and has just finished his analysis. And now it

Bug#741573: #741573: Menu Policy and Consensus

2015-08-28 Thread Nikolaus Rath
On Aug 28 2015, Sam Hartman hartm...@debian.org wrote: Nikolaus == Nikolaus Rath nikol...@rath.org writes: Nikolaus On Aug 28 2015, Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk wrote: Nikolaus [ things about the menu system ] Nikolaus This really has become a farce. This issue

Bug#741573: #741573: Menu Policy and Consensus

2015-07-27 Thread Josh Triplett
On Fri, 24 Jul 2015 16:20:52 +0200 Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org wrote: Sam Hartman hartm...@debian.org wrote: That seems very unlikely to me. Diversity is an important part of Debian. I think it is likely that the TC is going to value the Debian Menu as long as

Bug#741573: #741573: Menu Policy and Consensus

2015-07-27 Thread Josh Triplett
On Mon, 27 Jul 2015 15:05:03 -0700 Josh Triplett j...@joshtriplett.org wrote: On Fri, 24 Jul 2015 16:20:52 +0200 Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org wrote: Sam Hartman hartm...@debian.org wrote: That seems very unlikely to me. Diversity is an important part of Debian. I

Bug#741573: #741573: Menu Policy and Consensus

2015-07-24 Thread Josselin Mouette
Sam Hartman hartm...@debian.org wrote: That seems very unlikely to me. Diversity is an important part of Debian. I think it is likely that the TC is going to value the Debian Menu as long as Bill or someone else is going to work on it. I would expect us to value

Bug#741573: #741573: Menu Policy and Consensus

2015-07-24 Thread Sam Hartman
Charles == Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org writes: Charles I made efforts to keep the wording mild, but I think that Charles it was an error. From your attiude as the lead person behind the Debian Menu, it is clear that Charles it has no future. For one decade, you have

Bug#741573: #741573: Menu Policy and Consensus

2015-07-23 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 08:45:53AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: Hi Sam, [side note: while I joined the original discussion, I don't really have a stake in the outcome, other than the desire to have a working menu] On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 09:06:08AM +, Sam Hartman wrote: Should Bill

Bug#741573: #741573: Menu Policy and Consensus

2015-07-23 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 02:12:31PM +0200, Bill Allombert a écrit : This is not the case. I made my position clear the first time in the bug log, but one year later Charles decided to restart the discussion while ignoring all that was previously said. That made me angry and I have a policy

Bug#741573: #741573: Menu Policy and Consensus

2015-07-23 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Hi Sam, [side note: while I joined the original discussion, I don't really have a stake in the outcome, other than the desire to have a working menu] On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 09:06:08AM +, Sam Hartman wrote: Should Bill have recused? Your current process does not describe when policy

Bug#741573: #741573: Menu Policy and Consensus

2015-07-22 Thread Ian Jackson
Sam Hartman writes (Re: Bug#741573: #741573: Menu Policy and Consensus): If the TC found itself coming to a different conclusion than an informed rough consensus of debian-policy, it should carefully consider whether that is the right course. I have a very different view. The membership

Bug#741573: #741573: Menu Policy and Consensus

2015-07-22 Thread Sam Hartman
Ian == Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk writes: Ian Sam Hartman writes (Re: Bug#741573: #741573: Menu Policy and I think the key area where we differ is that I would give preference other things being mostly equal to upholding the work done in debian-policy. As I

Bug#741573: #741573: Menu Policy and Consensus

2015-07-22 Thread Sam Hartman
Ian == Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk writes: Ian 1. The TC - not the policy process, not the policy editors, and Ian not the consensus on debian-policy - has the ultimate Ian responsibility to set technical policy. (Constitution 6.1(1)) Ian So in the TC the

Bug#741573: #741573: Menu Policy and Consensus

2015-07-22 Thread Ian Jackson
Sam Hartman writes (Bug#741573: #741573: Menu Policy and Consensus): In March of 2014, Charles Plessy asked the Debian Technical Committee to review one of the policy editors decisions to revert changes to how policy talks about the Debian Menu and MIME support. See http://bugs.debian.org

Bug#741573: #741573: Menu Policy and Consensus

2015-07-21 Thread Sam Hartman
Josselin == Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org writes: Josselin Sam Hartman hartm...@debian.org wrote: Bill, in his role Josselin of policy editor said that he believed there was not a Josselin consensus. He cited a specific set of messages that he Josselin believes were not

Bug#741573: #741573: Menu Policy and Consensus

2015-07-20 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 09:39:50PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Le Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 08:05:56AM +, Sam Hartman a écrit : Bill, in his role of policy editor said that he believed there was not a consensus. Hi Sam, I think that what you wrote does not reflect what happened:

Bug#741573: #741573: Menu Policy and Consensus

2015-07-20 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 03:06:27AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Wasting people's hard work, and then using a lack of reply to an extra round of nitpicking as an excuse for having wasted the whole lot? The only hard work here is maintaining the menu system for ten years. Cheers, -- Bill.

Bug#741573: #741573: Menu Policy and Consensus

2015-07-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Bill Allombert ballo...@debian.org writes: On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 09:39:50PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: I think that what you wrote does not reflect what happened: - Russ gave me the green light for committing the changes, see

Bug#741573: #741573: Menu Policy and Consensus

2015-07-20 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 09:50:21PM +0200, Sune Vuorela wrote: The debian menu is de facto dead; it is time to put it out of its misery. This kind of language while customary of Sune and Josselin is inappropriate and rude to any people that have investigated significant time in maintaining menu.

Bug#741573: #741573: Menu Policy and Consensus

2015-07-20 Thread Sune Vuorela
On Monday 20 July 2015 17:14:03 Josselin Mouette wrote: Bill used his position as a policy editor to reject a change, not because it was against consensus or against the policy process, but because it was against his own opinion. Not as policy editor, but as menu maintainer. This is the

Bug#741573: #741573: Menu Policy and Consensus

2015-07-19 Thread Sam Hartman
Charles == Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org writes: Charles Le Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 01:56:49PM +, Sam Hartman a Charles écrit : Bill == Bill Allombert ballo...@debian.org writes: Charles Also, the question is not whether the FreeDesktop menu Charles should be described

Bug#741573: #741573: Menu Policy and Consensus

2015-07-19 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 08:05:56AM +, Sam Hartman a écrit : Bill, in his role of policy editor said that he believed there was not a consensus. Hi Sam, I think that what you wrote does not reflect what happened: - Russ gave me the green light for committing the changes, see

Bug#741573: #741573: Menu Policy and Consensus

2015-07-19 Thread Sam Hartman
Charles == Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org writes: Charles Le Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 08:05:56AM +, Sam Hartman a Charles écrit : Bill, in his role of policy editor said that he believed there was not a consensus. Charles Hi Sam, Charles I think that what you

Bug#741573: #741573: Menu Policy and Consensus

2015-07-18 Thread Sam Hartman
Bill == Bill Allombert ballo...@debian.org writes: Bill On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 10:08:04PM +, Sam Hartman wrote: In March of 2014, Charles Plessy asked the Debian Technical Committee to review one of the policy editors decisions to revert changes to how policy talks about

Bug#741573: #741573: Menu Policy and Consensus

2015-07-18 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 10:08:04PM +, Sam Hartman wrote: In March of 2014, Charles Plessy asked the Debian Technical Committee to review one of the policy editors decisions to revert changes to how policy talks about the Debian Menu and MIME support. See http://bugs.debian.org/741573 for

Bug#741573: #741573: Menu Policy and Consensus

2015-07-18 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 01:56:49PM +, Sam Hartman a écrit : Bill == Bill Allombert ballo...@debian.org writes: Bill I want to point out that I have split the menu policy changes Bill in 3 parts, so that the less controversial part could be Bill decided separately, see

Bug#741573: #741573: Menu Policy and Consensus

2015-07-17 Thread Sam Hartman
In March of 2014, Charles Plessy asked the Debian Technical Committee to review one of the policy editors decisions to revert changes to how policy talks about the Debian Menu and MIME support. See http://bugs.debian.org/741573 for the TC process and https://bugs.debian.org/707851. for the