Re: RFC: DEP-3: Patch Tagging Guidelines

["Giacomo A. Catenazzi" <cate@debian.org>]

Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le vendredi 19 juin 2009 à 13:01 +0200, Giacomo Catenazzi a écrit :
> > > What is the point of introducing this spec if it is not made mandatory
> > > at some point in the future?
> > so, IMHO we need a complete guidelines and start to use
> > it widely. It should not be complete or 100% precise
> > (so not yet the right time for bike-shading).
> > Then from time to time we could include some mature items
> > in the policy and discuss improvements.
>
> “Some point in the future” does not have to be tomorrow. But if, right
> from the start, the guidelines are designed so that they can’t be made
> mandatory later, they must be broken somehow.

I'm not so sure, but it is not so important that we doesn't agree on
this point.

but on DEP-3?

No!

I think DEP-3 development should be stopped soon, and we should apply it.
Any thing that it will be included in the policy, it will not be DEP-3,
but based on DEP-3.

A step toward a standardization, but not a part of standard itself.

In this case I think we should use DEP-3 without discussion every details:
we need a larger user base, then we will discuss details for standardization,
but not now.

I think this was the original misunderstanding.

ciao
	cate