On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 01:44:37AM -0400, Simon Law wrote: > On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 12:04:28AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > Do people think that we should only supercede foundation > > documents, and never modify them? I would not be averse to preserving > > a historical record. > > I think we should never modify them. It should be possible to > put margin notes that explain what we mean, but modifying them should be > forbidden. This preserves the historical record and keeps us honest. > I would hate to see a Foundation Document modified silently -- it would > make for a big scandal. I concur with Simon. If we go to the trouble of issuing a statement under this procedure then we should "externalize" the visibility of any revisions. -- G. Branden Robinson | Lowery's Law: Debian GNU/Linux | If it jams -- force it. If it branden@debian.org | breaks, it needed replacing anyway. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature