Discussion: granting discretion to release team (was: Call for seconds: DFSG violations in Lenny)

2008-11-16 Thread Frans Pop
Given that this is supposed to be the discussion period, I'd like to share my standpoint regarding one option. Andreas Barth wrote: > | We as Developers at large continue to trust our release team to follow > | all these goals, and therefor encourage them to continue making > | case-by-case-decis

Re: Discussion: granting discretion to release team (was: Call for seconds: DFSG violations in Lenny)

2008-11-16 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 10:29:35PM +, Frans Pop wrote: > We've already had two releases where this was an issue and in both cases > it was decided by a GR. Why should the current release team think they > could handle it differently? Maybe because in http://www.debian.org/vote/2004/vote_004

Re: Discussion: granting discretion to release team (was: Call for seconds: DFSG violations in Lenny)

2008-11-17 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 11:29:35PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > Given that this is supposed to be the discussion period, I'd like to share > my standpoint regarding one option. > > Andreas Barth wrote: > > | We as Developers at large continue to trust our release team to follow > > | all these goals

Re: Discussion: granting discretion to release team (was: Call for seconds: DFSG violations in Lenny)

2008-11-17 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 12:10:07AM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > I would welcome a more permanent answer to the firmware question, > really, I'm not really pleased with the trolls that arise on the subject > prior to every release. May I ask who are those "trolls" you refer to? -- Robert Mi

Re: Discussion: granting discretion to release team (was: Call for seconds: DFSG violations in Lenny)

2008-11-17 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 17 novembre 2008 à 16:04 +0100, Robert Millan a écrit : > On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 12:10:07AM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > > > I would welcome a more permanent answer to the firmware question, > > really, I'm not really pleased with the trolls that arise on the subject > > prior to ev