On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 09:15:10PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> Am I wrong in thinking it's policy's job to document the technical
> requirements for Debian packages? Am I wrong in thinking the policy
> editors ought to be doing whatever they can to get a consensus formed
> about proposals like 51411, 53582, 53849, 54524, 62996, 69311, 80343,
> and 89473, and making sure essentially accepted proposals like 76868 and
> 54002 get implemented, or get brought up again for propoer approval if
> discussion can't even take place without an implementation?
>
> If so, am I also wrong in thinking that someone ought to be doing all
> those things and that, if policy indeed isn't going to do it, we'd better
> write another document and find some people that *will* do it?
>
> Am I wrong in thinking that having a single, well known document that
> describes what packages should look like right now is one of the key
> Cool Things about Debian?
<rant>
If you have the time to sit down and do the jobs you've just listed,
fantastic, please do it and I'll step down from my policy-editing
responsibilities today. If you don't, but you can find someone who
can, that's also fantastic. Either way, please shut up about it.
I have said several times on this list what I am working on vis-a-vis
policy. I don't have unlimited time available to do this and I am
doing what I can. I have publically asked for help, and received a
small amount of help in the areas I requested from precisely two
people (you being one of them, although apparently not in direct
response to my request).
I agree with all of the above thoughts, but more volunteers are needed
to help them get done quickly.
</rant>
Julian
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