Re: Updating the Policy Editors delegation

2014-01-06 Thread Neil McGovern
On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 03:38:46PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Doing that now. :-) Also, I'm more worried with the interactions with > Constitution 6.1.1. It seems to me that a Policy Editors delegation > should have come from the TC, not the DPL. > Dear Secretary, what do you think? > Hia,

Re: Updating the Policy Editors delegation

2014-01-06 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Mon, 06 Jan 2014, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Mon, 06 Jan 2014, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Ian Jackson writes: > > > > > This is all very well but I think de jure they aren't a delegated team, > > > and the distinction is defined in the constitution. This is not > > > trivially bypassable, beca

Re: Updating the Policy Editors delegation

2014-01-06 Thread Russ Allbery
Peter Palfrader writes: > But whether or not that document has any meaning or influence is a > question for the ftp-masters, release team, and tech-ctte. > The power of the policy maintainers comes from them being listened to by > various teams, but those teams can revoke that and listen to some

Re: Updating the Policy Editors delegation

2014-01-06 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le lundi, 6 janvier 2014, 16.21:52 Ian Jackson a écrit : > I think the constitutional position of the policy team is as follows: > > They are a package maintainer team. They normally make their > decisions themselves under 3.1.1. I think that framing the policy team primarily into a package mai

Re: Updating the Policy Editors delegation

2014-01-06 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Mon, 06 Jan 2014, Russ Allbery wrote: > Ian Jackson writes: > > > This is all very well but I think de jure they aren't a delegated team, > > and the distinction is defined in the constitution. This is not > > trivially bypassable, because a delegated team is one who derives their > > powers

Re: Updating the Policy Editors delegation

2014-01-06 Thread Andreas Barth
* Ian Jackson (ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk) [140106 17:22]: > Lucas Nussbaum writes ("Re: Updating the Policy Editors delegation"): > > .oO ( funny that this comes up now, given the same delegation text was > > already used in > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/10/msg6.

Re: Updating the Policy Editors delegation

2014-01-06 Thread Russ Allbery
Ian Jackson writes: > This is all very well but I think de jure they aren't a delegated team, > and the distinction is defined in the constitution. This is not > trivially bypassable, because a delegated team is one who derives their > powers from the DPL and the constitution limits the powers o

Re: Updating the Policy Editors delegation

2014-01-06 Thread Ian Jackson
Russ Allbery writes ("Re: Updating the Policy Editors delegation"): > Ian Jackson writes: > > The policy editors will continue to be the maintainers of the policy > > package, and can change the policy team membership and the policy > > process as they see fit. Their substantive decisons are subj

Re: Updating the Policy Editors delegation

2014-01-06 Thread Russ Allbery
Ian Jackson writes: > So, in summary, I think there is nothing to be done here, except > (ideally) for you to withdraw the delegation statement. > The policy editors will continue to be the maintainers of the policy > package, and can change the policy team membership and the policy > process as

Re: Updating the Policy Editors delegation

2014-01-06 Thread Ian Jackson
Lucas Nussbaum writes ("Re: Updating the Policy Editors delegation"): > .oO ( funny that this comes up now, given the same delegation text was > already used in > https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/10/msg6.html and > https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2013/06/msg00

Re: Updating the Policy Editors delegation

2014-01-06 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
.oO ( funny that this comes up now, given the same delegation text was already used in https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/10/msg6.html and https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2013/06/msg4.html) On 06/01/14 at 13:51 +, Neil McGovern wrote: > On Fri, Jan 03,

Re: Updating the Policy Editors delegation

2014-01-06 Thread Neil McGovern
On Fri, Jan 03, 2014 at 05:58:19PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Furthermore, I don't think this delegation declaration is > constitutionally appropriate. The policy editors are, primarily, > maintainers of a package. > Indeed, there's potentially an issue here that the constitution states (8.3) "