On Wed, Sep 09, 2015 at 05:30:03PM +0100, Wookey wrote: > So what I learned from this is that, as currently operating, the > committee is incapable of making quick 'overrule unreasonableness' > decisions. My overriding impression was that those involved simply did > not have the time available that would be be needed to enable that. No, what you see here is that the TC did not agree with you that the maintainer's action was unambiguously unreasonable under the circumstances. There was a substantive technical dispute between maintainers about how certain related packages were being handled in the archive; this is not solved by summarily overruling the maintainer of one of the packages. If you conclude from this that raising the issue to the TC was not an effective way to see your grievance addressed under those circumstances, I won't disagree with you. But you are asserting that the reason for this is that the TC is unable to act quickly to overrule. This is not the case; there is historical precedent for quick overrules by the TC where there is actual agreement that this is appropriate. That said, if developers have expectations of the TC that don't match reality, that seems worth addressing. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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