Neil Conway wrote: > I agree, but I think this is another symptom of having only one person > maintain the list. It is a non-trivial amount of work to understand all > the arguments in a complex -hackers thread and distill that into a few > accurate sentences that summarize the consensus (if there even was > one!). I'm not at all surprised when the TODO entry that results is > incomplete or misleading if the person doing the summary wasn't one of > the primary participants in the -hackers thread.
Why can't others modify the TODO list, or FAQ for that matter. I get patches for the later, but few for the former. > > Short of going to a wiki, I think we can at least make it easier for > other committers to modify the TODO list. What format is doc/TODO in, > anyway? (It doesn't seem to be normal plaintext.) Why is there also an > HTML copy of the TODO list (doc/src/FAQ/TODO.html) kept in CVS? (I'd > rather we not keep generated files in CVS, in general.) > > I think a concrete improvement would be to get rid of all that, and > maintain a master copy of the TODO list in some sane format -- or > failing that, DocBook :) I replied to this in another email. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
