On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 06:28:11PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > First, we need to decide whether we want to continue to maintain > developers-reference. We could simply decide that it's deprecated, and > use a set of wiki pages to document our procedures. I see some value to > a (mostly) self-contained documentation, but, if it helps getting > contributions from more people, we could simply move to wiki.d.o. (or to > a ikiwiki instance). I'm not a big fan of wikis, so I wouldn't continue > to "maintain" dev-ref, but I'm open to the idea. I don't think wiki pages are a suitable replacement for the developers-reference. Over the years, one of my complaints about the devref has been the lack of a formal and public review process for changes. A wiki would move in precisely the wrong direction; no one is going to subscribe to all the wiki.debian.org changes to keep tabs on devref changes. I think the devref discussions (incl. bug traffic) need to be moved onto debian-policy. We already have any number of bugs getting redirected from policy to the devref, so it's not as though there would be a massive traffic increase; and it would put the right set of eyeballs on the changes to ensure the result actually reflects best practices. > If we decide to continue to maintain developers-reference, we should all > participate. I'm not asking everybody to become co-maintainers (some > help is probably needed, and would be welcomed, but I don't think that > the main problem is here). I think moving the process "out into the open" would really help with this problem. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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