On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, Jeremiah Foster wrote:
> I understand why both you and Russ feel that way. But I would like
> to respectfully disagree. I think you would find in practive this
> might be an excellent opportunity for people to get involved.
What's most important isn't that more people get invo
Jeremiah Foster writes:
> On Jun 26, 2009, at 19:00, Russ Allbery wrote:
>>> "In all cases, the part of the field contents on the same line as the
>>> field name, is empty."
>> The second comma here *would* be a grammatical error. You cannot
>> separate the noun from the verb with a comma.
> N
Jeremiah:
On that note, would you have some time (maybe later on) to work on
producing a simple "annotated Debian Policy" applet?
While a Wiki in itself might not be useful, Russ has mentioned that
perhaps there is room for an Annotated Policy Manual.
Importantly, though, we need to remind users
On Jun 26, 2009, at 20:14, Russ Allbery wrote:
The hard work is taking a proposal for a concrete change, thinking
through all the implications, getting buy-in from the affected people,
and then writing a section of Policy for it that clearly communicates
the issue. Secondarily, we need more re
On Jun 26, 2009, at 19:27, Steve Langasek wrote:
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 05:09:00PM +0200, Jeremiah Foster wrote:
I am also cautious about wiki'ising this manual. I'd rather we go
through a more cautious process of agreeing the wording and ensuring
the detail is clear to all readers globally.
On Jun 26, 2009, at 19:00, Russ Allbery wrote:
"In all cases, the part of the field contents on the same line as the
field name, is empty."
The second comma here *would* be a grammatical error. You cannot
separate the noun from the verb with a comma.
Not according to Strunk and White. The
Russ:
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 10:40 PM, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Jonathan Yu writes:
>
>> That is a very good point. I imagine that there are much more things
>> proposed than there are people to properly review them and 'vote' on
>> them. (well, to the extent that seconding things counts a vote)
>
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