Source format for policy (was: Bits from the Policy Team, call for volunteers)

2009-03-11 Thread Ben Finney
Russ Allbery writes: > DocBook Conversion > == > > One of the things that Manoj had been working on was converting > Debian Policy from DebianDoc-SGML to DocBook and formalizing a new > structure that would make it easier to extract bits of information > from Policy requirements.

Re: Bits from the Policy Team, call for volunteers

2009-02-01 Thread Russ Allbery
Bill Allombert writes: > Well, I think we should somehow do a better job of documenting in the > Policy itself why a decision has been made. If you look at the threads > "Debian version numbers and strcmp()" and "mail_spool default mode is > 0660" it would have been very useful to have a pointer

Re: Bits from the Policy Team, call for volunteers

2009-02-01 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 08:08:04PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Bill Allombert writes: > > > I would like to be a Policy delegate. > > Hi Bill, > > I think that sounds great. Thanks! > Most of the work is in the BTS, and most of that is tackling an open > issue, trying to figure out what to d

Re: Bits from the Policy Team, call for volunteers

2009-01-23 Thread Russ Allbery
Bill Allombert writes: > I would like to be a Policy delegate. Hi Bill, I think that sounds great. I didn't have a lot of specific ideas in mind as to how to go about adding people. I think the best thing to do may be for you to just dive in, given that most of what the team does doesn't requ

Re: Bits from the Policy Team, call for volunteers

2009-01-22 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 03:49:45PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Almost anyone with some experience with Debian packaging and technical > experience with what works and what doesn't in package integration can > usefully participate on the debian-policy mailing list. A Policy delegate > should addit

DocBook (was: Bits from the Policy Team, call for volunteers)

2009-01-20 Thread W. Martin Borgert
Quoting Russ Allbery : > We would love to get the input of someone with prior DocBook experience on > a style guide. We need a document format and supporting documentation > that lists the subset of DocBook that will be used in Policy and exactly > when particular tags should be used. If you woul

Bits from the Policy Team, call for volunteers

2009-01-19 Thread Russ Allbery
General Status == Debian Policy work has largely been on hold for the past few months, partly due to the release freeze but mostly due to lack of time and resources. Policy 3.8.1 is in preparation and already includes 12 bug fixes, 7 normative (affecting the requirements set by Policy