A unified diff of the changes Ian made to reflect people's feedback on draft 3 of his proposed disputes resolution document is MIME-attached.
The changes appear to be: + changes to the list of parties of whom the document claims to be representative; + stylistic alterations to the paragraph on authoritative documentation -- G. Branden Robinson | If God had intended for man to go Debian GNU/Linux | about naked, we would have been [EMAIL PROTECTED] | born that way. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
--- iwj_draft3 2002-11-06 12:08:06.000000000 -0500
+++ iwj_draft4 2002-11-06 12:07:59.000000000 -0500
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
DISPUTES BETWEEN DEVELOPERS
-A *DRAFT* joint recommendation of the the Technical Committee, the
-Project Leader and the Bug Tracking System Administrators.
-
+A *DRAFT* recommendation by the Technical Committee.
1. Motivation
@@ -84,13 +82,13 @@
please try to make your message helpful and friendly. Probably they
didn't know about the rule in question, or understand it differently.
-If you can, refer the other Developer to some documentation saying
-when they should and should not do something, do so. If such
-documentation does not exist, consider writing it - it is difficult for
-nonexistent documentation to be authoritative, and a misunderstanding
-that arises once in the absence of a documented procedure is likely to
-arise again. The Debian Developers' Reference is usually an excellent
-place to document common practice.
+If you can, refer the other Developer to some documentation explaining
+what the right process is. If such documentation does not exist,
+consider writing it - it is difficult for nonexistent documentation to
+be authoritative, and a misunderstanding that arises once in the
+absence of a documented procedure is likely to arise again. The
+Debian Developers' Reference is usually an excellent place to document
+common practice.
If the other Developer disagrees, you should seek guidance from the
wider Project, so that everyone has the same ideas of how things are
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