On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 12:34:30PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 02:44:00AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > I'd rather we stopped looking at policy as "mandating things".
>
> > There are three things policy's trying to do at the moment:
> >
> > 1) specify technical standards, like version formats and package
> > names
> >
> > 2) specify packaging and coding best practices
> >
> > 3) specify release requirements
>
> I agree. However, the language used in the Policy Manual, and the
> organization of the manual itself (or lack thereof) is not necessarily
> appropriate for all of these issues.
>
> The document is right now used to mandate things, and obviously this
> creates problems when some things shouldn't be handled in that manner.
> I filed several bugs about it, not all of which are resolved yet...
For whatever it's worth...
As the remaining Policy editor -- though I admit I have been badly
itinerant for the past several months -- I guess I should weigh in.
I feel basically about policy as I expressed in the logs of bug
#97671[1]. In my opinion the current dispute is basically a re-hash of
the meta-discussions that cropped up while that bug took a trip to the
Technical Committee.
In my opinion, the role of the Policy Manual is:
1) Yes, to specify technical standards, like version formats and package
names.
2) Possibly to specify packaging and coding best practices. These
should *either* be in the Policy Manual appendices, or in a separate
document.
3) *NOT* to specify release requirements. That should be a document
under the control of the Release Manager DPL delegate, and of course
that responsibility can be shared with whomever he sees fit (as
mutually agreed upon).
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?archive=no&bug=97671
(scroll down about 25% and start reading).
--
G. Branden Robinson | Convictions are more dangerous
Debian GNU/Linux | enemies of truth than lies.
branden@debian.org | -- Friedrich Nietzsche
http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
Attachment:
pgp2E0at6PNKE.pgp
Description: PGP signature