Hi everyone, this is an experiment to try to get weekly postings of policy topics happening again. Now seems like a good time, since the policy list has been having some active proposals on it recently. Notice that this has a very regular format - if I keep doing it I will try to automate as much of it as possible. To that end, I'd like to encourage everyone to post policy proposals as wishlist bugs, using Manoj's guidlines (http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-policy-9810/msg00046.html).
Items will remain on this list until stalled for 2 weeks or done. An item becomes stalled if there is no activity for 1 week. Bug: 21875 Title: fixing nntpserver inconsitency Begin-date: 23 Apr 1999 Proposed-by: Joey Hess Seconders: Branden Robinson, Santiago Vila, Raphael Hertzog Status: done Description: Change /etc/nntpserver to /etc/news/server. Bug: 36051 Title: moving the menu hierarchy into debian policy Begin-date: 14 Apr 1999 Proposed-by: Joey Hess Seconders: Raphael Hertzog, Joseph Carter, Branden Robinson Status: discussion Description: Proposal to move existing menu hierarcy text into policy with only small changes, and postpone large changes until later. Notes: There was some discussion, but we didn't clearly reach a consensus. No-one disagrees that some menu structure should be added to policy, but there is some disagreement that the suggested structure should go in as-is. Bug: Title: Scripts PROPOSAL Begin-date: 22 Apr 1999 Proposed-by: Brock Rozen Seconders: Status: discussion Description: Proposal to require that scripts ensure the environment they run in is sensible, by sanitizing PATH and TZ. Notes: No consensus. IFS may need to be sanitized as well. Bug: Title: logrotation Begin-date: 28 Apr 1999 Proposed-by: Balazs Scheidler Seconders: Brock Rozen, Raphaël Hertzog, Brian Almeida, Marco d'Itri Status: consensus Description: Proposal to change to using logrotate instead of savelog. -- see shy jo
