An alternate proposal to answer the guidelines question.

[Toshio Kuratomi]

On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 13:45 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Thursday 17 May 2007 13:40:10 Peter Jones wrote:
> > It seems to me that the fundamental question is: what do I do when I
> > find a packaging problem?
> >
> > The answer should be:
> >
> > 1) Contact the maintainer about it.  Start by filing a bug, work from
> > there.  Be reasonable.
> > 2) if the maintainer doesn't respond, or won't fix it and can't satisfy
> > you with any good reasons why not, then send a note to FESCO.
> > Conversely, if you're a maintainer and somebody won't listen to reason
> > about when there is a good reason not to change something, contact FESCO.
> > 3) when FESCO is notified of a problem, they appoint somebody who they
> > trust to do the right thing to arbitrate the dispute.  The arbitrator
> > has the right to decide right and wrong here.
> > 4) do what the arbitrator says.
> > 5) if a maintainer still doesn't fix a package, the arbitrator lets
> > FESCO know that we need to start the orphan package process.
> 
> +1
+1
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