Re: Debian menus policy
Thomas Hood wrote:
> I would like to make another comment that is pertinent
> both to package classification and to menu organization.
> During the discussion of the former there was a debate
> over whether classification should be done by the package
> maintainers or by a classification czar who would maintain
> an external database. I think that unless we can find some
> fool who is willing to take responsibility for classifying
> the whole archive, responsibility for classification and menu-
> fication is going to have to be delegated to the maintainers.
Absolutely. However, there might be someone who is designated as the
"menu master" who has the job of answering questions about the menu
structure and its proper use whenever policy is not clear or fails to
address some issue. Additionally, this person might have the authority
to invent new subcategories on an as-needed basis (hopefully not
something that will be needed very often).
> As usual, maintaining order requires that policy be set.
> The most important aspect of the policy will be the selection
> of tags and values (i.e., menu and submenu titles) of
> sufficiently self-evident meaning as to induce useful and
> consistent classification and menufication.
Yes.
> I also suggest that in designing this system we [*] subject
> ourselves [*] to the discipline of not using the value/title
> "misc".
>
> [*] IANADM
Is that "I am not a Debian maintainer"?
I think you're basically right, we don't want "misc"; it would just
be a dumping ground for things that didn't fit anywhere else. Best to
either find a good existing category, or have the "menu master" (or
menu committee -- whatever) invent a new one.
Craig
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