Re: ideas underlying policy
Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@datasync.com> wrote:
> Actually, when Debian was formed it had only one developer,
> and no one could contribute packages, since that would have diluted
> the distributions tight integration. This bazaar thing has evolved.
My memory doesn't extend back that far, nor have I found any documentation
on that period. I presume you're talking about Ian Murdock's original
plans, in some sense. Can you elaborate a bit on what those original
plans were, and why they changed to the present (GNU style) form?
> "If you find yourself having to do something which seems to
> conflict with policy -- where it seems like you should do
> things differently,
> Please take a moment and reflect on the issue. The policy document
> has not been thrown together trivially, it has been the concerted
> effort of a number of people, who may well have spent weeks
> discussion each little point. If after careful review you still think
> that Policy happens to be flawed in some way, then please
Er... is this an alternate phrasing, a comment directed at me, or some
combination?
> include a comment to that effect in your package's change log,
> and please file a bug report against policy.
> I like the rationale. I would add: Policy is the distilled
> wisdome and and experience of a number of people who have worked
> together to create the policy documents, and is meant to be something
> that one may depend on to have been thought through, for the most
> part (since the people who created this are only human, policy is not
> flawless).
Do you mean, add this sentence at this point in the document, or
anywhere in the document? (there's another paragraph where it would flow
smoother).
> There are issues for which there are several equally valid
> technocal solutions, but a coherent distribution has to make a
> decision between competeing solutions -- conventions (like the
> location of the http server document root) that help different
> packages in the distribution cooperate and depend on each other. The
> policy documents are also a compendia of such conventions critical
> for a cohesive OS.
Again, I'm not quite sure why you're saying this -- is this language
you'd like to see in the document? Or is this a concept you'd
like to see in the document? Or is this something you'd like
to see in some specific paragraph?
Please, I can't try to intuit too much here. I need to be able to
distinguish between misunderstandings, stream of conciousness,
deep thoughts, and random comments.
Thanks,
--
Raul
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