On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 04:26:43PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > At this stage? If you are not willing to listen to feedback, > that had better be never. If the intent is for this to be broadly > adopted, the specification should be fixed as early as possible, and we > should not adopt a flawed specification inder the guise that it is > currently "voluntary". Frankly, I think that the spec should have > optional parts, and parts we need, and we should try to come to an > consensus on the required part of the spec, and the optional parts > should be clearly outlined in the specification.
We have been listening to feedback and commentary on the draft proposal for over a year now, responding and modifying things as appropriate. That process broke down some time ago, so we have opened dialogues on various mailing lists, and we are starting DEP 5 to gather feedback. > Nice sound bite. But a spec or a standard's big value comes if > it is fixed to be widely accepted, even if it means that some parts of > the standard are "optional". I hope that you will contribute your opinion when DEP 5 has a draft to review. -- Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
