[Freedombox-discuss] Working Groups

[John Walsh]

Hi Everybody,

FBX is my first Debian project and I am more than happy to use the Debian
infrastructure (mailing list, wiki) because I trust the processes are well
tuned by now. Still, as a Debian project newbie could somebody
explain/provide a link to the Debian processes in the context of a working
group and how/when do you know consensus in a Debian project is reached?

There are some things on the wiki I would like to change, but I feel it's
not my place to change them without first discussing with the author, but I
am guessing the author of the wiki page is not necessarily the last person
who edited the page. BTW, I have never used a wiki before!! Alternatively,
if I was to create, say my own use case, with some minor differences to an
existing use case this would be counter-productive. I think its much better
to talk to the original author.

I imagine that the posts on the wiki's are strawmans which are
discussed/refined on the mailing list until a consensus is reached. How do
you know something on a wiki is still up for discussion or is a confirmed
requirement? 

These questions may seem quite trivial/waste of your time to Debian
experienced people, but I assure you they are quite important to somebody
like me who is new to this whole thing. 

Thanks for reading.