Re: Bug#944920: Revise terminology used to specify requirements

2020-01-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Sean Whitton writes: > Let's definitely reconsider those 'must' requirements in response to > this work, but let's not commit ourselves to the idea that it's always a > bug for the Release Team's conception of an RC bug, and Policy 'must' > requirements, to disagree. > The Release Team's

Re: Bug#944920: Revise terminology used to specify requirements

2020-01-03 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Sun 29 Dec 2019 at 11:20am -08, Russ Allbery wrote: > Paul Gevers writes: >> On 21-11-2019 13:59, Paul Gevers wrote: > >>> [Disclaimer: the words below are as a member of the release team, but >>> not necessarily those of the team. We haven't discussed this yet.] > >> We have had a

Re: Bug#944920: Revise terminology used to specify requirements

2019-12-29 Thread Russ Allbery
Paul Gevers writes: > On 21-11-2019 13:59, Paul Gevers wrote: >> [Disclaimer: the words below are as a member of the release team, but >> not necessarily those of the team. We haven't discussed this yet.] > We have had a discussion, and there were no objections against my vision > below. >> I

Re: Bug#944920: Revise terminology used to specify requirements

2019-12-10 Thread Paul Gevers
Dear Policy Editors, On 21-11-2019 13:59, Paul Gevers wrote: > [Disclaimer: the words below are as a member of the release team, but > not necessarily those of the team. We haven't discussed this yet.] We have had a discussion, and there were no objections against my vision below. > I can

Re: Bug#944920: Revise terminology used to specify requirements

2019-11-21 Thread Paul Gevers
Dear Russ, [Disclaimer: the words below are as a member of the release team, but not necessarily those of the team. We haven't discussed this yet.] On 17-11-2019 20:47, Russ Allbery wrote: > Let me copy the release team. How would you all prefer to handle the > relationship between

Re: Bug#944920: Revise terminology used to specify requirements

2019-11-17 Thread Russ Allbery
Bastian Blank writes: > On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 10:10:11AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >> +The Release Team may, at their discretion, downgrade a Policy requirement >> +to a Policy recommendation for a given release of the Debian distribution. >> +This may be done for only a specific package or