Re: [gNewSense-users] Re: Make MIPS gNewSense from Debian packages

[Sam Geeraerts]

Daniel Clark wrote:
> Koh Choon Lin wrote:
> > > I'm not going to try to tell the devs which to choose.  However, I will
> > > say that when I was a GNU/Linux newbie, I tried Debian before Ubuntu
> > > with less than successful results.  Since then, I think Debian has
> > > become more newbie-friendly, though (e.g. adding a graphical installer).
> > How would the issue of deciding the starting platform be settled?
> > Debian-way a la by voting?
>
> We probably need to formalize how decisions like this are made - I'd be
> fine with just copying Debian's way of doing it, with perhaps veto power
> for the FSF campaigns team (rms/mattl/peterb/johns - not me) so no
> changes could ever be made that would cause gNewSense to become non-FSF
> approved.
Is Debian's way of doing it: every Debian Developer gets a vote? Then 
what would the criteria for getting a vote in the gNewSense community be?