Re: Managing Frozen text when the TC Decides Policy

2019-05-15 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello Sam, On Sat 11 May 2019 at 01:24PM -04, Sam Hartman wrote: > I agree that it would generally be unfortunate if we had policy text > that could not be changed by the policy process. I can see rare > situations where it might happen: we might have legal advice requiring > specific text be in

Re: Thinking about Delegating Decisions about Policy

2019-05-15 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello Sam, On Fri 10 May 2019 at 03:57PM -04, Sam Hartman wrote: > What are people's thoughts about this? > > Will this approach work for the TC and policy editors? I think that the concrete suggestion you're making is that when a question that comes before the T.C. is something that could be so

Re: Thinking about Delegating Decisions about Policy

2019-05-15 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello Ian, On Mon 13 May 2019 at 02:50PM +01, Ian Jackson wrote: >> we delegated managing the process to the policy editors, but not the >> actual policy decisions. They make consensus calls. They use their >> judgment in a lot of ways. > > That is a decision *of* the policy editors. When the

Re: Bits from the DPL (April 2019)

2019-05-15 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello Russ, On Mon 13 May 2019 at 08:40PM -07, Russ Allbery wrote: > That said, just as a matter of style and usability, we should describe the > common case first and make it clear that one doesn't have to open up the > details unless something isn't working right. > > [...] > > The path that, t

Bug#910783: Remove doc-base recommendation

2019-05-15 Thread Holger Levsen
On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 09:07:53AM +0200, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > > We need a cross-distro cross-desktop standard for an index of > > docs before we can move on from doc-base like we did with menu. > I don't think so: we can just remove doc-base without providing a > replacement at the same time

Bug#910783: Remove doc-base recommendation

2019-05-15 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Paul Wise writes: > On Thu, 11 Oct 2018 17:32:52 -0700 Sean Whitton wrote: >> Instead, if there is indeed consensus, we should change it so that it >> no longer says that doc-base registration is recommended. > > We need a cross-distro cross-desktop standard for an index of > docs before we can mov