Re: volunteers wanted for driving/finalizing a DEP on debian/copyright format
On Wed, Dec 03 2008, Noah Slater wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 10:52:39AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
>> Why do you need a separate mailing list for a single proposal? Please
>> discuss this on debian-devel or debian-project, which are already perfectly
>> adequate lists for this.
>
> We have struggled enough with the proposal as it is. My fear is that
> discussing it on debian-devel will open it up to "fire-and-forget"
> criticism that lacks context of previous discussions, is poorly
> thought out, results in spiralling threads and contributes little to
> the effort. If there was some dedicated forum for discussing this,
> even if this was simply a DEP mailing list, I think it would encourage
> thoughtful and committed contributions from all involved.
Then you'll just have to go through another round of discussion
and debate before this proposal could be implemented, I
think. Something as intrusive as this proposal can't be just discussed
in special purpose mailing lists.
manoj
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Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/~srivasta/>
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