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Jonas wrote: > Joke aside, I am aware that technical changes are big. I just expected > social challenges in finding consensus too, and am glad to learn if that > is not the case. Yes, there seem to be social challenges to deal with - or at least my short and recent experience with emdebian tools seems to show. Emdebian tools are part of Debian, which is a step in the right direction for integration of Emdebian into Debian proper. However, my experience is that the documentation for this tools has lots of places for improvements, and that the tools themselves still have a lot of rough edges. However, many of the few bugreports I have attempted have been received as if those two aspects had no importance whatsoever - to the point of getting told that the manpage is already too large and cannot hold all information, and that the wiki is a better place for documentation. That leaves me wondering what to do about the load of other reports I would have done - I am already quite discouraged to invest time in submitting substantial doc patchs (it should be kept in mind that writing doc is a demanding work, especially when it is about restructuring doc written by others), although I noted that fixing obvious typos is still OK ;) My guts feeling is that such a position gets in the way of usability, gets in the way of bringing more users to emdebian (if not worse), and does not match the quality standards of Debian (as a single example, no core Debian tool has its authoritative documentation in a wiki as prefered to inside the package). It would be just great if Emdebian could follow in Debian's step, and my opinion is that it is even necessary for integration in the Debian ecosystem. Best regards, -- Yann Some references: http://bugs.debian.org/630258 http://bugs.debian.org/630406 http://bugs.debian.org/631241 http://bugs.debian.org/630314 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
