On 16/01/08 at 12:18 +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote: > Hi, > > Lars Wirzenius, Stefano Zacchiroli and myself are trying to introduce > the concept of Debian Enhancement Proposals, which I had in mind for > many months until purely by chance, in the Extremadura QA meeting last > December, I brought it up to Lars, and together with Zack we produced an > initial draft. After some feedback on that draft and some later work, we > are now bringing it up for discussion here.
Hi, Thanks a lot for working on this. I really like the idea. It might sound like a lot of bureaucracy at the first sight, but when you read it more closely, it's just a way to formalize the current best practices that we already use (or should really use). > Suggested document contents: > > * An introduction, giving an overview of the situation and the motivation > for the DEP. > * A plan for implementation, especially indicating what parts of Debian need > to be changed, and preferably indicating who will do the work. > * Preferably a list of criteria to judge whether the implementation has been > a success. > * Links to mailing list threads, perhaps highlighting particularly important > messages. If discussion happens on IRC, pointers to logs would be nice. * An history of changes made to the DEP, with their rationale, or links to emails explaining giving it. ... which you did: > Changes > ------- > > * 2008-01-15: > [ Adeodato Simó ] > * Add section about how to create a DEP. > * Rewrite "Introduction" (splitting "Motivation" off), and parts of > "Workflow" as well. [...] -- | Lucas Nussbaum | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
