Re: /usr/share/doc vs. /usr/doc transition, debate reopened

[Chris Waters <xtifr@dsp.net>]

Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> writes:

> As I understand it, formal objections are "I never want to see this
> implemented" -- and five of them are enough to say "This solution will
> not be implemented by the policy group no matter what else may happen,
> ever";

I have no idea where you came up with this.  I read the proposal
policy pretty carefully when I made my own proposal a couple of months
ago, and I just double-checked them, and I see *nothing* like this!

In fact, the proposal policy is (deliberately, I thought) quite vague
on what, if anything, is the difference between a "formal" objection
and an informal one.  This is all supposed to be a fairly informal
process -- things which don't have concensus are handled in other ways.

> The above was, btw, a cheap shot on my part about the formal objection.
> Chris has made it quite clear in his posts that he *is* open minded on
> the issue, as, I suspect, are most of us.

Thanks, good to know I'm not being *totally* misinterpreted here.  I
agree that if you believe all this stuff about five formal proposals,
and no recourse, and all that, what I did may look harsh.  But I can't
find anything like that, and Manoj was *totally* ignoring several
objections that didn't include the magic phrase "formal objection".
I see nothing really making that magic phrase special in the proposal
policy, but since I didn't want to be completely ignored like those
others, I used it.  :-)

> Some of the formal wrangling seems to be getting in the way of
> finding and discussing an acceptable solution however.

I think it's just a complex issue.  Those do occur once in a while. :-)

cheers
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