Romain Beauxis <to...@rastageeks.org> writes: > Le Wednesday 25 March 2009 16:45:59 Russ Allbery, vous avez écrit :
>> FWIW, it is not at all clear to me that there was any need for either >> of those GRs (particularly 2008_002, which did indeed strike me as a >> waste of the GR process). > Well, even if I would agree with you, apparently this GR had 21 > supporters.. Far from the idea of some abuse from a small number of > developpers. > So clearly, this proposition would not even "solve" this "issue". Sure. Thus proving that this proposal isn't raising the seconding requirement too high. :) >> Note that the effective conclusion of both of those GRs was to do what >> was happening anyway and would have happened without the GRs, apart >> from the secondary effects of making the whole thing more >> confrontational. > For 2008_002 in particular, there was a clear need of such a decision, > since the previous announce had been made as if it was about to happen > while there was apprently no consensus for it. There was a clear need for a clarification. Why we had to vote on the clarification after Ganneff made it clear that it wasn't his intent to implement prior to consensus is still highly perplexing to me. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org