Re: Bug#38612: PROPOSED] Have proposal-submitting guidelines in policy package

[Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>]

> Brock Rozen wrote:
> > Does this mean that the "proposal-submitting guidelines" will not become
> > part of the policy itself? I think that should be done, as it makes them
> > official and allow for them to be changed officially as policy would
> > dictate (fine, it would dictate itself how it would change itself, but
> > that's fine; governments work that way, we can as well) ;-)
> 
> Keep in mind what policy is for. Keep in mind the intended audience. It's
> not just the members of this list, and we shouldn't clutter policy up with a
> lot of baggage new maintainers need not read. A pointer is quite sufficient.

Same question as emacs mini-policy.  Whether it has the weight of
policy is not the same as whether it is included directly in the
policy document or not.

   Julian

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  Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk
        Debian GNU/Linux Developer,  see http://www.debian.org/~jdg