On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 06:27:53PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Steve Langasek (vorlon@debian.org) [060524 17:54]: > > So I guess you can still criticize folks for this if you want to, but I know > > that my own ongoing notion of "best practices" comes from stuff I learned > > long ago plus new ideas discussed on this mailing list, not from the devref. > Well, wouldn't it be a good idea to make just sync the dev ref with what > you consider as best practice? Certainly! Perhaps one of these years I'll find time to think about doing that. :-) > (And, BTW, I make much effort to only update the dev ref with correct > information.) Sure, I don't doubt that this is the case. I'm just saying that, since the devref is non-normative, it doesn't attract the same attention from the community that policy does on keeping it updated, which is hard for a small group of editors to overcome because people tend to be biased to think their own viewpoint is the consensus viewpoint :) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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