Re: Formation of SGML/XML Policy Group
>>"Mark" == Mark Johnson <mrj@debian.org> writes:
Mark> I'm thinking it'd make good sense to make some sort of official policy
Mark> document, with associated author group, to compose a new Debian policy
Mark> for packaging, implementation, etc., of XML, SGML, and related stuff.
Mark> I haven't a clue how to make this happen, which is why I'm writing
Mark> you.
I would leave the composition of this group to the experts we
Mark> Ardo also suggested that we develop some group package management
Mark> system, with the maintainer being some alias like
Mark> 'xmlhackers@debian.org', and add maintainers to the list who can
Mark> upload on behalf of 'xmlhackers@debian.org'.
Umm. The way it generally happens is that the group of
experts, and the package maintainers of related packages, come up
with a working policy. Then comes a testing phase, during which the
policy is either a part of some package, or is a separate package by
itself, and may be referred to in the policy document as a
recommendation.
Finally, when things settle down, and the new subpolicy does
not change, it is subsumed into the actual policy package, and is
distributed as official policy; from that point on generic policy
change protocol has to be followed to amend the document.
Does this clarify things?
manoj
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