Draft privilege escalation policy for comments

[Adam Williamson]

On Sun, 2010-01-31 at 08:55 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Adam Williamson wrote:
> > I think it's sensible, yeah. It's not really much bureaucracy; I don't
> > think it would ever be a good idea to introduce a new privilege
> > escalation mechanism without FESco knowing about it...
> 
> Right now we're in a phase where a lot of stuff (system-config-*, several 
> parts of KDE and some other stuff) is getting ported from running the whole 
> app under consolehelper or kdesu to PolicyKit mechanisms. This is generally 
> seen as a *good* thing. It'd be really annoying to have to go through a 
> FESCo vote for every single one of those.

That's not intended to be the scope. It's not meant to mean that
introducing a PolicyKit policy requires a FESco review; it's meant to
mean that introducing *the entire PolicyKit mechanism* would have
required a FESco review.

Obviously (since you misunderstood it) the current wording is confusing,
I will try to improve it.
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