Re: Group policy draft

[Andreas Tille <tillea@rki.de>]

On Mon, 14 Apr 2008, Charles Plessy wrote:

> I have tried to develop our Policy and prepared the following patch. I

I like your patch and agree with every single change.

> tried to be a little bit more verbose in order to justify our choices
> when there could be alternatives. I tried to reflect what makes
> consensus on this list, but I would prefer that a few persons confirm
> that they agree that there is no personal bias in this patch.

If it might be biased we share the same bias. ;-)

> Another reason why I will not commit this patch now is that it may
> contain DocBook errors. I intend to work on this later, and propose do
> downgrade the version of DocBook used to 4.5, the latest official
> version. The currently used one (5.0CR7) is not available in the
> docbook-xml package, and this is not convenient for offline work. I
> propose to sumbit an "editorial" patch that does this downgrade and
> fixes the DocBook errors that it introduces.

I'm in great favour of enabling offline work and would definitely
vote for downgrade the version if this would be the way to be able
to work offline.  Grabbing always for th elatest verison makes no real
sense for me if we face other drawbacks.

Thanks for your work on the policy

        Andreas.

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