Cesare Tirabassi wrote:
So, I'd propose a +2 in a (insert a reasonable amount of time here, 2 days since the date a _valid_ request was filed seems reasonable to me) ? The obvious drawback is that no FFe can be approved before the 2 days elapse, in my view a reasonable price to pay.
We can do better than this - why not use your proposal, or if it has a +3 vote, it can go through immediately? 2 or 3 days sounds a pretty sane time to me. That gives us the advantages of both situations.
An alternative would be to have a veto system, in which any member can stop the regular process by simply objecting (obviously with reasonable arguments) against the FFe. In this case the FFe will not be approved until the required majority is obtained.
I hesitate over this - having worked with the KDE side for a while, i'm aware that some of the non-KDE-ers would veto changes based on size, but not understand the way KDE works, in terms of upstream testing, etc, and would veto, on principle. Yet others, who do understand the testing procedure, etc, that has gone on, and think it's fine. If I recall correctly, we certainly had some kde4 universe packages where this was the case, too.
I'd hate to see a 'valid' FFe be declined, because someone didn't understand the upstream procedures (which is likely, based on how many there are), and made a judgment not taking all the relevant factors into account, as they didn't know about them.
Note that I'm not saying that they should all know everything - because I'm not - just that we need to make sure that their incorrect decision shouldn't act as a sledgehammer.
I'd also discourage the practice of accepting an FFe on the base of a short IRC chat without apparently any research on the implications and background of the request. We have an FFe process so lets make the best use of it (accepting an FFe because your buddy is asking you to do it on IRC, or because somebody you trust is telling you that it will be good to have that package, are not, in my humble view, good reasons to accept an FFe).Finally, I always found a nonsense that we have a rather strict system until few days before release and then exactly when we should really tighten the tap, we relax all requirements (its enough to have one IRC approval without sometime even filing a request).
I'll comment on this later. Hobbsee
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