Re: Proposal Announce Processes

1998-09-02 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Luis" == Luis Francisco Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Luis> Now, if you guarantee proposals will have that header I don't Luis> have a problem. Well, I think that was part of the guidelines. We shall try and strive to ensure it is adhered to .

Re: Proposal Announce Processes

1998-09-02 Thread Luis Francisco Gonzalez
Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Let me get this straignt. You can't be bothered to read your > own mail, you cant be bothered to check a web page, you cant be > bothered to filter the -devel list looking for the ^Subject: .*PROPOSAL: > header into a new list, you can't be bothered to setup some

Re: Proposal Announce Processes

1998-09-02 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Luis" == Luis Francisco Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Given the use of the BTS, any such list is redundant. Luis> Yeah right. I just said that reading all the messages that get into my Luis> mailbox is too much and the solution is to force me to regularly check a Luis> web pag

Re: Proposal Announce Processes

1998-09-02 Thread Jules Bean
On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, Luis Francisco Gonzalez wrote: > > So why don't you bookmark the bug page on policy? Any proposal > > shall show up as a wishlist bug, and formal amendments shall show up > > as regular bugs. The bug reports shall be retitles to show the > > current status. > > > >

Re: Proposal Announce Processes

1998-09-02 Thread Luis Francisco Gonzalez
> So why don't you bookmark the bug page on policy? Any proposal > shall show up as a wishlist bug, and formal amendments shall show up > as regular bugs. The bug reports shall be retitles to show the > current status. > > Given the use of the BTS, any such list is redundant. Yeah r

Re: Proposal Announce Processes

1998-09-02 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Luis" == Luis Francisco Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Luis> With the amount of traffic in almost all debian lists, I can Luis> hardly keep up with all of it. I do want to know the issues Luis> discussed but get burried in lots of email. Now having that Luis> list would allow me t

Re: Proposal Announce Processes

1998-09-02 Thread Luis Francisco Gonzalez
> Personally, I don't think that this is necessary, since I feel that > developers who care about policy should read the group, and those who > don't should be content to 'toe the line'. However, if someone else were > to propose a scheme like that above, I wouldn't vote against it. With the amoun

Re: Proposal Announce Processes

1998-09-01 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Since we are going to be using the BTS for keeping track of policy proposals, one can just use a script to look at the current state of policy. bugsin () { lynx http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/pa/l$1.html } manoj -- Sam: What's the good word, Norm? Norm: Plop, plop, fizz, fi

Re: Proposal Announce Processes

1998-09-01 Thread Darren Benham
On 01-Sep-98 Jules Bean wrote: > On Tue, 1 Sep 1998, Darren Benham wrote: > >> I'd say announcing it to the "general" developer public would be a courtesy >> if >> nothing else. There might be an issue that someone feels important enough >> (or >> important enough to his packages) that he'd want

Re: Proposal Announce Processes

1998-09-01 Thread Jules Bean
On Tue, 1 Sep 1998, Darren Benham wrote: > I'd say announcing it to the "general" developer public would be a courtesy if > nothing else. There might be an issue that someone feels important enough (or > important enough to his packages) that he'd want to participate but not, in > general, be a p

Re: Proposal Announce Processes

1998-09-01 Thread Darren Benham
I'd say announcing it to the "general" developer public would be a courtesy if nothing else. There might be an issue that someone feels important enough (or important enough to his packages) that he'd want to participate but not, in general, be a part of ALL policy discussions. On 01-Sep-98 Mano