Calling for a Council to solve the "spatial nautilus change" issue

[Colin Watson]

On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 06:54:54PM +0200, Vincent Untz wrote:
> The behavior change that was recently introduced in spatial nautilus
> seems to really be controversial. There has been a lot of discussion on
> this list and on bugzilla [1].
> 
> I do not want to discuss pros and cons of the change here in term of
> usability since we all know the world is divided between people who like
> spatial nautilus and people who hate it :-) I think the main issue here
> is from a release engineering point of view (Is it okay to change this
> now, one week before the release? Is it okay to radically diverge from
> upstream? etc.)
> 
> I do not wish to discuss these issues here since we might not reach a
> decision. I'd like to see a Community Council to debate if this change
> should be kept or removed for Hoary.
> 
> Is it possible to have a special Community Council to solve this issue?

If a meeting's to be held, I think questions of release engineering and
package divergence fall within the jurisdiction of the Technical Board,
not the Community Council.

(I have no opinion on this change; I haven't read enough about it to
form one. I'm a member of the Community Council, though.)

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]