On Sat, May 15, 1999 at 12:03:26AM -0700, Chris Waters wrote: [..] > Since we don't want to force Joost to rerelease the menu package every > few weeks, there's a strong tendency to react to all suggestions to > change the menu policy with the comment: "that's a good idea, let's > get some more suggestions together and overhaul the entire heirarchy > all at once," followed by hordes of suggestions, usually bad (I know, > I've made some bad ones myself). Then we wrangle, decide we're not > sure yet, and forget the whole matter till the next innocent > suggestion comes along, to start the whole mess over again. > > Note that this problem is SO prevalent, that when Joeyh suggested > *moving* the menu policy into the main policy document, the reaction > from Wichert was, "that's a good idea, but lets overhaul the entire > heirarchy all at once, first." Pretty much missing the ENTIRE POINT > OF THE PROPOSAL! (Although, technically, I think Wichert was right, > insofar as menu policy probably shouldn't be embedded in the policy > document directly.) hahahahaha You have a point of course, and as a result you have my second. -- Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org> Debian GNU/Linux developer PGP: E8D68481E3A8BB77 8EE22996C9445FBE The Source Comes First! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- "and i actually like debian 2.0 that much i completely revamped the default config of the linux systems our company sells and reinstalled any of the linux systems in the office and here at home.."
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