On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 07:24:21PM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Steve Langasek wrote: > > 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. > So, to be clear, does that mean that (assuming they don't change the > meaning) you object to these changes, or only that you do not want to > spend time dealing with them? In other words, if some portion of the > "everyone" whose time is wasted wants to spend time that way, would > that be a problem? Yes, it's still a problem because it steals time from the policy editors and/or DEP drivers away from substantive issues. And when I say "I'm inclined to ignore it", I mean that I don't think I'm going to merge this into the dep repo. > For what it's worth, I find the text more readable after JBR's changes > than before. I don't think readability matters much when it still doesn't say what it needs to. -- 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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