>>>>> "Russ" == Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> writes: Russ> What do people think? Helpful innovation, or just extra Russ> bookkeeping that isn't worth the effort? If people do think Russ> this is a good idea, I'll bring it up on debian-devel for Russ> further discussion (and then, if we adopted it, it would be a Russ> debian-devel-announce post).
I think I'd recommend waiting until you get burned a couple times by not having the review before implementing something like this. I've watched the expert review process in the IETF become more involved over the years, and I think it's important to be careful of against process complexity increases. Mind I think the IETF complexity increases may be justified: the impact of standards errors today is bigger than it was in 2000. And it may be that we've reached the point to start down that road in Debian. But I'd prefer to have concrete things we're accomplishing with a change like this. They might look like: * I'm an expert in foo area, but debian-policy is too much traffic, and I'm struggling to keep up or * We didn't get enough review and we made a mistake with the bar change. We have experts who would have done the review if asked but do not read debian-policy. --Sam