[csw-maintainers] Policies and special cases

[Peter FELECAN]

"Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski" <maciej at opencsw.org> writes:

> No dia 16 de Novembro de 2010 21:18, Philip Brown <phil at bolthole.com> escreveu:
>> On 11/16/10, Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski <maciej at opencsw.org> wrote:
>>> No dia 16 de Novembro de 2010 17:00, Philip Brown <phil at bolthole.com>
>>> escreveu:
>>>
>>> How does the release manager know what's the best for the user?  It's
>>> not a rhetorical question.  I'm interested to know in the process.
>>
>> Maciej, we've been round this particular discussion at least 3 times
>> before :-/ Previously, you have been asking with an eye to "well, tell
>> me the process, and then we'll automate it".
>> To which the reply has been, is, and always will be, "you cant
>> automate EVERYTHING. Certainly, the things that can be, we should. But
>> there are things that cannot be".
> [...]
> This way, you basically reserve the right to say whatever you please
> on any package you please and always claim it's a case by case basis.

This is the exact definition of the term "discretionary"

> [...] I don't want
> my packages to be at the mercy of a single person who can make stuff
> up as they go along.  Is that reasonable?

Again: the maintainer is the release manager and tools verify and
validate predefined policies. Dominique Laigle made up a nice process
diagram about what we agreed at the summer summit (sorry again).
-- 
Peter