A unified diff of the changes Ian made to reflect people's feedback on draft 3 of his proposed disputes resolution document is MIME-attached. The changes appear to be: + changes to the list of parties of whom the document claims to be representative; + stylistic alterations to the paragraph on authoritative documentation -- G. Branden Robinson | If God had intended for man to go Debian GNU/Linux | about naked, we would have been branden@debian.org | born that way. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
--- iwj_draft3 2002-11-06 12:08:06.000000000 -0500 +++ iwj_draft4 2002-11-06 12:07:59.000000000 -0500 @@ -1,8 +1,6 @@ DISPUTES BETWEEN DEVELOPERS -A *DRAFT* joint recommendation of the the Technical Committee, the -Project Leader and the Bug Tracking System Administrators. - +A *DRAFT* recommendation by the Technical Committee. 1. Motivation @@ -84,13 +82,13 @@ please try to make your message helpful and friendly. Probably they didn't know about the rule in question, or understand it differently. -If you can, refer the other Developer to some documentation saying -when they should and should not do something, do so. If such -documentation does not exist, consider writing it - it is difficult for -nonexistent documentation to be authoritative, and a misunderstanding -that arises once in the absence of a documented procedure is likely to -arise again. The Debian Developers' Reference is usually an excellent -place to document common practice. +If you can, refer the other Developer to some documentation explaining +what the right process is. If such documentation does not exist, +consider writing it - it is difficult for nonexistent documentation to +be authoritative, and a misunderstanding that arises once in the +absence of a documented procedure is likely to arise again. The +Debian Developers' Reference is usually an excellent place to document +common practice. If the other Developer disagrees, you should seek guidance from the wider Project, so that everyone has the same ideas of how things are
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