On Mon, 26 Apr 2004 10:16:09 -0400, Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 09:59:53AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: >> The technical committee can't override the constitution (nor >> foundation documents) any more than you can. > Hmm.. actually, maybe that's not true in this case... > Given that the intent of the most recent GR was "Editorial Changes", > and given that those editorial changes have had technical effects, I beg to differ. What technical changes? A release policy change of this nature is certainly onn technical in nature. > and given that the technical committee is empowered to decide on > issues of technical policy, it probably is within the committee's > bailiwick to grandfather the old meaning of the social contract in > the context of Sarge. I would strongly disagree. The developers can certainly pass another GR, but the tech ctte should not override the wishes of the develoeprs when this is not a technical issue at hand. > I think this should be talked throough on the committee list. Let me put it this way: it is a technical issue if you would file a BTS bug to resolve the issue, and, usually, if it is related to code, or other package components. We also generally do not resort to GR's for technical issues; the fact that you first thought of a GR to solve this should give you a hint that this is not a technical issue. Deciding when to release, and what can be released, does not fall in that domain. Expanding the powers of the tech-ctte for convenience, or the belief that the developers did not know what they were doing, or to take a short cut to a GR, is not acceptable. manoj -- "The subspace _W inherits the other 8 properties of _V. And there aren't even any property taxes." MacKay, Mathematics 134b Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/> 1024R/C7261095 print CB D9 F4 12 68 07 E4 05 CC 2D 27 12 1D F5 E8 6E 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]