Re: Bug#1067079: Clarify that policy on a technology does not implicitly mandate that technology
Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> writes:
> Nonetheless, if the Policy editors are opposed to documenting something
> despite it being collectively known to be the case, and do not feel that
> any possible wording change would change that position, then I will not
> push for it further.
I have already suggested a wording change that I would be happy to review
and that I think would be much more likely to accomplish your goals.
Document the other way of doing things that you would like Policy to
mention. It doesn't have to be long; in many cases, one paragraph with
some man page references would be sufficient to get people pointed in the
right direction.
In an ideal world, I think people *should* prefer to do things in one of
the ways that Policy documents doing them, even if other ways of doing
them would be acceptable. That's how we get a more consistent
distribution. This requires documenting our preferences, which seems like
a good thing all around.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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