Re: GR: Orphaning another maintainer's packages

2012-10-27 Thread Paul Wise
I don't think we need GRs to decide development procedures like this. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/

Re: GR: Orphaning another maintainer's packages

2012-10-26 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 7:46 AM, Arno Töll wrote: > *) we have consensus that we are in need of such a rule set - which ever > it may be > > *) we have three orthogonally different ideas: >a) Bart's approach which was reformulated and proposed by Lucas in > this thread [1] >b) Mine - which

Re: GR: Orphaning another maintainer's packages

2012-10-26 Thread Arno Töll
On 26.10.2012 13:54, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > But I urge you to reconsider proposing a GR. It is a heavy > weight tool, that should be used as a last resort. So far I agree. I didn't say I'll propose on - JFTR. I said I'll consider that and asked for opinions - like yours :) -- with kind re

Re: GR: Orphaning another maintainer's packages

2012-10-26 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 01:54:19PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > I don't think we're nowhere near the need of it in this specific case. s/don't// obviously :) -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . z...@upsilon.cc . . . . o . . . o . o Maître de conférences . . . . . http://upsilon.cc/zack

Re: GR: Orphaning another maintainer's packages

2012-10-26 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 01:46:41PM +0200, Arno Töll wrote: > What do you think? Does this sound like a fair compromise everyone > could live with? Voting is almost never a way to reach consensus. Rather, it acknowledges that consensus has not been reached and side-steps further constructive attemp