On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 11:01:05AM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > > To consolidate related changes, let's wait however a little > > for additional propositions. For instance, I would like to suggest to replace > > “dash” by “hyphen” > I disagree here. Please file separate reports for separate proposals, > unless the text they affect and subject matter seem to overlap a lot > and the proposed text is already ready. > DEP drivers: do these changes look reasonable to you? Policy > delegates: does this require formal seconds, or is it just an > informative change? I think the effort to have this proofread by debian-l10n-english at this stage is misguided, because there are serious problems with the *standards language* of the current draft, which makes it nearly impossible for implementors to get things right due to the resulting ambiguities. I haven't reviewed the proposed diff, but I don't expect a proofreading effort to have resulted in significant improvements. Charles inquired privately whether I objected to this strategy, but only waited a day before requesting proofreading from debian-l10n-english, so, <shrug> I think merging such changes (which at a glance appear to include arbitrary preferences of word choice) is a waste of everyone's time and I'm inclined to ignore this altogether in favor of working on the real problems with the text. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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