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On Tuesday, March 24, 2026 9:31:38 PM Mountain Standard Time Gunnar Wolf 
wrote:
> I have often said that we should not fear GRs — we should try to make them
> manageable. Having a GR on any given topic should not be seen as stressful
> as it is seen, and should not prompt dozens of news sites to look greedily
> at Debian knowing a large flamefest is coming. In my opinion, a GR should
> be usable even to gauge the project's opinion on any given topic, without
> making it necessary for it to be a huge discussion.
> 
> Of course, neither our culture nor our processes nor our tools help us. GRs
> are heavy, they have long defined discussion and voting periods (even if
> they are more manageable since https://www.debian.org/vote/2021/vote_003 )
> 
> Do you have any improvements to this process that could help making
> mini-GRs more manageable?

The thing that surprised me most when I proposed a GR last year about hard-
wrapping email line lengths was how much anger was expressed that I had 
proposed it.  Ultimately, the proposed GR did not receive sponsors, so it 
didn’t progress past that point.  In my opinion, the process did exactly what 
it was supposed to do, which was to gauge the interest of the community in the 
change.  When it didn’t receive sponsors, I accepted that result.  But I don’t 
think anyone needed to get angry at me for proposing the GR.

-- 
Soren Stoutner
soren@debian.org

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