On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 01:43:44PM +0000, Justin B Rye wrote: > Andrea Brugiolo wrote: > > I suppose the phrase "May old libraries were removed..." wanted to be > > ""Many old libraries were removed...", at the end of the page > > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/project-history/ch-releases.en.html > > Agreed. That page could do with some love - I would suggest throwing > out some of the less important facts about Etch and Lenny now that > they're no longer news - but I'll restrict my comments below to the > section for Squeeze.
Well, I am not digging the mine like you all are doing in these mailing lists so I hope this won't bother you as an intrusion: from my point of view (a quite advanced user), keeping most of the history possible on that page (without boring with too long texts, of course) would be not a bad idea: it is useful to have a clear idea at a glance of the Debian evolution, and a clear idea of what the developers who wrote those texts in those day were thinking it was important, in those days :-) In other words (and going possibly even further Justin's intention): the chronicle should not be rewritten :-D Therefore, from my point of view I would be rather conservative -- after that, people who really want completeness of information can always go and read the specific release notes, of course. But I am sure you are already doing such considerations. That said, I don't comment on the rest of Justin't text as I am not so deep in the Debian culture so I give you back the word. Thank you all, again, for you work and for paying attention to these aspects of the Debian development, that are everything but marginal, imho. Andrea -- Andrea Brugiolo [email protected] Free Software Users Group Padova http://www.fsugpadova.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
