[dpl-helpers] draft release team delegation

Lucas Nussbaum leader at debian.org
Thu Dec 12 17:14:11 UTC 2013


On 12/12/13 at 16:26 +0000, Neil McGovern wrote:
> Oops, hit send too soon...
> 
> On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 06:49:11AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> > Policy decisions by the Release Team (on packages, on architectures) are
> > expected to rely on well-defined processes and criterias.
> > 
> 
> <hat type="secretary" advice="not-official-7.1.4-interpretation">
> 
> This bit is also troublesome - it's a slight rewording of const 8.3.
> I'd suggest either removing it as redundant, or changing it to:
>    The release team may make decisions as they see fit (on packages,
>    architectures etc) but should attempt to implement good technical
>    decisions and/or follow consensus opinion.
> 
> Otherwise, there's a risk that the delegation could be read as being
> over restrictive to what the constitution allows - so clarity is better
> here.
> 
> </hat>

Hi,

Erm, right. I'll drop the sentence.
 
Lucas



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