On Mon, Nov 30, 1998 at 12:29:29AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > If no one participates, then surely Debian shall fall by the > roadside. It's two weeks before finals. Give us a break. I recall a nice mess of proposals a couple of months ago (heck, I think I was one of the ones that started them off). A quiet spot is not something to panic over. > bigus. Shall we ask Ian to appoint a policy czar, who shall go off > and issue dictums from the high, now that we know the policy mailing > list has failed? I hope that question was rhetorical. As you well know, putting together a policy proposal takes time, and as you *should* very well know by now, the criticisms of a few reflect neither the will nor the failure of the project. As for the people criticising, go back and read the original dialogue on the new policy procedures; the maintainers are deliberately not responsible for forcing all policy issues, they are grouped to make sure that things decided here actually make it into the document. So let me back Manoj here in saying that if you think policy changes are happening too slowly, pitch in and help. ObPolicy: Manoj, could you put up on the web somewhere a quick tutorial on how to make those nice, formatted proposal documents you do (or at least source, so the inexperienced can clone and attempt to learn by example)? Looks like some kind of sgml formatting, but since I'm not remotely fluent, it's only a haphazard guess. =========================================================================== Zed Pobre <zed@va.debian.org> | PGP key on servers, fingerprint on finger ===========================================================================
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