Jonathan Dowland writes ("Re: Proposed GR: Acknowledge that the debian-private list will remain private"): > However, this approach for me is less acceptable if there is a diminished > chance of such "flame-retardant" discussions from ever being declassified, > which I think would be the case after this GR passes.
I can see why that premise would lead you to that conclusion. > The dissonance might simply be I perceive the current state of affairs to be > that we might actually declassify some of -private, some day, Empirically speaking that is surely a forlorn hope. > and the GR (original text at least) makes it less so. (I even had > "join the declassification effort" on my long-term TODO list, but I > have done precicely nothing). Adding the riders about a better > process soothes this a bit. I think that Don's wording clearly opens the door to other kinds of declassification efforts, or efforts to change the way -private works. Ian.