Sure I do understand how things work. I'm not suggesting that ALL discussions
need be public - specifically I was not meaning deliberations on any given
case.
But I do think that general policy discussions should involve the entire debian
community - as is done for Debian Policy Manual.
On March 7, 2018 7:03:54 PM EST, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
>Steve Robbins dijo [Sat, Mar 03, 2018 at 01:15:35PM -0600]:
>> (...)
>> To me, one of the puzzling aspects is why the FTP policy work has
>been so
>> secretive. The release team has a mailing list, tech committee has a
>mailing
>> list. There is Debian Policy list. It doesn't seem in congruence
>that the
>> ftp team is making their policy behind closed doors. Should it not
>flow from
>> Debian Policy and be debated on open lists?
>>
>> Or maybe it is all open and I simply haven't found it. If so, I
>would
>> gratefully accept pointers. Concretely: where would one find the
>> deliberations behind https://ftp-master.debian.org/REJECT-FAQ.html ?
>
>Ummm...
>
>Not that I know much about how ftp-masters work internally. But I have
>been on several other Debian teams. In general, all decisions are
>taken in the public - But it is by far not uncommon to resort to
>private communication for many of the non-obvious, contentious
>cases. There are *always* cases where you want to discuss something
>without the affected actors being part of the loop.
>
>Yes, Debian as a whole strives for openness, and you will often see
>calls to "get out of private" whenever interesting discussions taking
>place. But I would perfectly understand and support a ftp-master
>workflow that routinely involves private communication - Their
>decisions, although non-personal in nature, can be *felt* as personal
>attacks.
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