On Wed, Dec 03 2008, Noah Slater wrote: > On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 10:52:39AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
>> Why do you need a separate mailing list for a single proposal? Please >> discuss this on debian-devel or debian-project, which are already perfectly >> adequate lists for this. > > We have struggled enough with the proposal as it is. My fear is that > discussing it on debian-devel will open it up to "fire-and-forget" > criticism that lacks context of previous discussions, is poorly > thought out, results in spiralling threads and contributes little to > the effort. If there was some dedicated forum for discussing this, > even if this was simply a DEP mailing list, I think it would encourage > thoughtful and committed contributions from all involved. Then you'll just have to go through another round of discussion and debate before this proposal could be implemented, I think. Something as intrusive as this proposal can't be just discussed in special purpose mailing lists. manoj -- Let's just be friends and make no special effort to ever see each other again. Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.debian.org/~srivasta/> 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]