On Monday 06 April 2009, Otavio Salvador wrote: > Hey, let's make one thing clear OK; You're de facto the maintainer and > the RM of the installer manual and I fully agree with that but please > realise that the manual is part of Debian Installer project.
Sure, but that does not change anything. > > Attending meetings, or even reading their logs, is not required nor > > should it be (and neither is presence on IRC). (And I think that ATM > > it's a lot better for those meetings if I don't attend them.) > > I disagree on that. On what exactly? I'm willing to read the *minutes* of meetings, and as you've seen I _have_ done exactly that as I have responded to them. But I don't think you can realistically expect everybody involved with D-I (either closely or remotely) to attend the meetings or to read through the raw logs. > > There is quite a bit more to doing a release for the manual than just > > building and uploading it (after all, why should the manual be any > > different from the rest of D-I?). > > That is really the point. What is the point? I think you've not read my sentence correctly. The bit between brackets means "why should the manual be any less complex than the installer itself"; it does *not* mean "the manual is no different than the installer and does not require any special handling". > Being the D-I RM, I think I can consider changing something if I > believe it can benefit the project as a whole, right? No, when it comes to the manual you really cannot, especially not as long as you have absolutely no clue what's involved. And certainly not unless you're willing to accept *total* responsibility for the installation guide from that point forward. You are very welcome to *suggest* changes, but you cannot just go ahead and *make* them. And the reason is very simple: because you just do not know what's involved, you would be quite likely to break something. And possibly something that could be really quite hard to correct [1]. [1] No, I'm not just talking here. There really is at least one aspect of doing uploads that is totally non-obvious, but something that you really *must* be aware of. And no, I'm not going to explain what it is in this thread. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
