Re: Bug#38612: PROPOSED] Have proposal-submitting guidelines in policy package
On 31-May-99, 19:02 (CDT), Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> 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.
What's the real benefit of having it be policy? It's just the way
to track various proposals. If someone doesn't do exactly the right
thing, then the others will either fix it or ignore the proposal. Not
everything needs to be policy.
Important question to ask when considering whether something should be
policy: "How will the Debian user community be hurt if someone doesn't
follow the proposed rules?" In this case, not at all. It might annoy a
few people on debian-policy, and be inconvenient to Joey or Manoj or
whoever is trying to track policy proposals, but it's self-correcting:
someone who consistently violates the guidelines will be ignored, or
at least won't have any effect on policy.
Steve
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