ke, 2009-03-25 kello 01:32 +0000, Noah Slater kirjoitti: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 12:39:46AM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > I'm curious... What do you think *is* the "Debian way of doing things > > like this" ? > > Manoj's email strongly implied that a DEP was needless bureaucracy. > > I'm hardly likely to argue with you about what constitutes the Debian way, but > considering we've let a proposal stew on a wiki for over a year, have taken > some > discussion over to the mailing list and are now working on a DEP, I find it > very > confusing that it should be considered that we are somehow abusing the > process.
Speaking as one of the drivers of DEP0, I think you are misunderstanding how DEPs should be driven. They should not be used to control the discussion. They are, very fundamentally, a way to record consensus and the state of the discussion. As a by-product, they hopefully produce a document that will be useful later. If the people participating in a discussion have to be aware that something is discussed as part of a DEP, and have to adjust their behavior accordingly, the drivers have failed. (Also, DEPs are hardly the established "Debian way of doing things". There's only two accepted ones, and only six ones ever registered, counting DEP0 itself. I hope that DEPs will some day be accepted, but they won't be, if it's OK to use them as hitting implements.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
