Don Armstrong
2015-07-29 14:59:53 UTC
I'm proposing the following draft ballot to resolve the menu/desktop
question. This draft is available in git; feel free to make specific
changes there and announce them to the bug. If there is no discussion or
substantial changes to this draft, I will call for votes around Monday
the 3rd of August. If there is discussion or changes, I will delay as
appropriate.
Whereas:
1. The Debian Technical Committee has been asked to resolve a
dispute between maintainers of Debian Policy over a change that
i. incorporates the description of the FreeDesktop menu system
and its use in Debian for listing program in desktop menus
and associating them with media types
ii. softens the wording on the Debian Menu system to reflect that
in Jessie it will be neither displayed nor installed by
default on standard Debian installations.
Using its power under §6.1.1 to decide matters of technical policy:
OPTION A:
1. The Technical Committee adopts the changes proposed by Charles
Plessy in ba679bff[1].
2. Further modifications to the menu policy are allowed using the
normal policy modification process.
[1]: http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/dbnpolicy/policy.git/commit/?id=ba679bff76f5b9152f43d5bc901b9b3aad257479
Using its power under §6.1.5 to offer advice:
1. The Technical Committee suggests that the maintainers of the
Debian menu package support translating .desktop files of
packages which do not provide menu files.
OPTION B:
1. Considers that the policy procedure resulted in consensus, and
adopts the changes proposed by Charles Plessy in ba67bff.[1]
2. Further modifications to the menu policy are allowed using the
normal policy modification process.
[1]: http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/dbnpolicy/policy.git/commit/?id=ba679bff76f5b9152f43d5bc901b9b3aad257479
OPTION C:
1. The Technical Committee adopts the changes proposed by Bill
Allombert.[1]
2. Further modifications to the menu policy are allowed using the
normal policy modification process.
[1]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?att=1;filename=patch2;bug=707851;msg=446
OPTION Z:
Further discussion
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Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com
The attackers hadn't simply robbed the bank. They had carried off
everything portable, including the security cameras, the carpets, the
chairs, and the light and plumbing fixtures. The conspirators had
deliberately punished the bank, for reasons best known to themselves,
or to their unknown controllers. They had superglued doors and
shattered windows, severed power and communications cables, poured
stinking toxins into the wallspaces, and concreted all of the sinks
and drains. In eight minutes, sixty people had ruined the building so
thoroughly that it had to be condemned and later demolished.
-- Bruce Sterling, _Distraction_ p4
question. This draft is available in git; feel free to make specific
changes there and announce them to the bug. If there is no discussion or
substantial changes to this draft, I will call for votes around Monday
the 3rd of August. If there is discussion or changes, I will delay as
appropriate.
Whereas:
1. The Debian Technical Committee has been asked to resolve a
dispute between maintainers of Debian Policy over a change that
i. incorporates the description of the FreeDesktop menu system
and its use in Debian for listing program in desktop menus
and associating them with media types
ii. softens the wording on the Debian Menu system to reflect that
in Jessie it will be neither displayed nor installed by
default on standard Debian installations.
Using its power under §6.1.1 to decide matters of technical policy:
OPTION A:
1. The Technical Committee adopts the changes proposed by Charles
Plessy in ba679bff[1].
2. Further modifications to the menu policy are allowed using the
normal policy modification process.
[1]: http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/dbnpolicy/policy.git/commit/?id=ba679bff76f5b9152f43d5bc901b9b3aad257479
Using its power under §6.1.5 to offer advice:
1. The Technical Committee suggests that the maintainers of the
Debian menu package support translating .desktop files of
packages which do not provide menu files.
OPTION B:
1. Considers that the policy procedure resulted in consensus, and
adopts the changes proposed by Charles Plessy in ba67bff.[1]
2. Further modifications to the menu policy are allowed using the
normal policy modification process.
[1]: http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/dbnpolicy/policy.git/commit/?id=ba679bff76f5b9152f43d5bc901b9b3aad257479
OPTION C:
1. The Technical Committee adopts the changes proposed by Bill
Allombert.[1]
2. Further modifications to the menu policy are allowed using the
normal policy modification process.
[1]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?att=1;filename=patch2;bug=707851;msg=446
OPTION Z:
Further discussion
--
Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com
The attackers hadn't simply robbed the bank. They had carried off
everything portable, including the security cameras, the carpets, the
chairs, and the light and plumbing fixtures. The conspirators had
deliberately punished the bank, for reasons best known to themselves,
or to their unknown controllers. They had superglued doors and
shattered windows, severed power and communications cables, poured
stinking toxins into the wallspaces, and concreted all of the sinks
and drains. In eight minutes, sixty people had ruined the building so
thoroughly that it had to be condemned and later demolished.
-- Bruce Sterling, _Distraction_ p4
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