On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 05:35:07PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 12:41:04AM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > > It is precisely because we all agree on the importance of releasing > > sarge soon that we have proposed so many paths to reaching this goal. > > This is an effort to build consensus, not a lack of consensus on our > > part. Debian is a large community, and it's not easy to know what the > > outcome of such a vote will be before it happens. The range of ballot > > options has been provided partly in the hope that at least *one* among > > these options will receive the necessary support from developers and > > will put us back on the road to releasing sarge. > > This rely on the premices that at least some options will allow to release > sarge sooner. Unfortunately discussions on debian-vote involving the > release manager and the ctte had made clear to me that none of the > ballot options will have positive effect on the release of sarge, making > the exercise rather pointless, the reason being, all the options focus > on the previous SC change and side-step the real issue which is the > change of the release policy. I see no evidence that any changes of the > SC will imply change in the release policy allowing to release sarge > sooner.
Can you please refer me to the discussions in question? As far as I can tell, both Steve and I (release assistants) have an entirely different impression, and between us we proposed some of the options on the ballot. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
