Re: Syntax issues in Policy Manual
Jeremiah:
On that note, would you have some time (maybe later on) to work on
producing a simple "annotated Debian Policy" applet?
While a Wiki in itself might not be useful, Russ has mentioned that
perhaps there is room for an Annotated Policy Manual.
Importantly, though, we need to remind users that it's not the
official manual, but rather an official manual with user-supplied
annotations, somewhat like AnnoCPAN. This way we can have the
usefulness of a wiki but still ensure the safety of such an important
document.
If people want to easily propose a rewording, people could do so, and
write an annotation like: "Proposed rewording: Blah blah blah, blah
blah blah." -- then maintainers could easily merge whatever changes
are a good idea with the policy, and ignore the rest (but leave them
there in case others might think it's useful). If at a later time
somebody comes across the annotation and decides that it should be
used in Policy, then they could campaign for that.
Cheers,
Jonathan
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 7:42 PM, Jeremiah
Foster<jeremiah@jeremiahfoster.com> wrote:
>
> On Jun 26, 2009, at 20:14, Russ Allbery wrote:
>
>> The hard work is taking a proposal for a concrete change, thinking
>> through all the implications, getting buy-in from the affected people,
>> and then writing a section of Policy for it that clearly communicates
>> the issue. Secondarily, we need more reviewers after people do produce
>> language, although that's gotten much better than it was.
>>
>> Proposing changes is the easy part. If we make that part even easier,
>> we're going to end up with even more of a backlog.
>
> When you present the issue like that I can see that a wiki is probably not
> tremendously useful.
>
> Warm regards,
>
> Jeremiah
>
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