Re: adding rationale commentary to the policy manual

2000-02-09 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sat, Feb 05, 2000 at 07:30:39PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: I've long felt that one big failing of the policy manual is that it does not include any text describing the rationale behind the rules in it. That's because people like Santiago Vila can't distinguish informative statements from

Re: adding rationale commentary to the policy manual

2000-02-09 Thread Santiago Vila
On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Branden Robinson wrote: On Sat, Feb 05, 2000 at 07:30:39PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: I've long felt that one big failing of the policy manual is that it does not include any text describing the rationale behind the rules in it. That's because people like Santiago Vila

ot: Winding up Branden (was: adding rationale commentary to the policy manual)

2000-02-09 Thread Edward Betts
Santiago Vila [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Branden Robinson wrote: That's because people like Santiago Vila can't distinguish informative statements from normative ones. I'm all for a kind of markup which well spell it out to dolts. Branden, will you leave me alone

Re: ot: Winding up Branden (was: adding rationale commentary to the policy manual)

2000-02-09 Thread Michael
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Edward Betts) writes: Why not just wind Branden up in retaliation? Look it is easy: X-WINDOWS, X-WINDOWS, X-WINDOWS, X-WINDOWS, X-WINDOWS, X-WINDOWS, X-WINDOWS X-WINDOWS, X-WINDOWS, X-WINDOWS, X-WINDOWS, X-WINDOWS, X-WINDOWS, X-WINDOWS X-WINDOWS, X-WINDOWS, X-WINDOWS,

Re: ot: Winding up Branden (was: adding rationale commentary to the policy manual)

2000-02-09 Thread Tomasz Wegrzanowski
On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 12:20:26PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Edward Betts) writes: Why not just wind Branden up in retaliation? Look it is easy: X-WINDOWS, X-WINDOWS, X-WINDOWS, X-WINDOWS, X-WINDOWS, X-WINDOWS, X-WINDOWS X-WINDOWS, X-WINDOWS, X-WINDOWS,

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2000-02-09 Thread Seth R Arnold
2000 22:08:26 +0100 From: Tomasz Wegrzanowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-policy@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: ot: Winding up Branden (was: adding rationale commentary to the +policy manual) Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] +[EMAIL PROTECTED] +[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: adding rationale commentary to the policy manual

2000-02-07 Thread Joey Hess
Manoj Srivastava wrote: I think I have added some explanations as footnotes in the recent past. I'd prefer rationale to be visible footnotes to the document rather than hidden away in the sources; with the clear understanding that the explanatory footnotes are not part of policy.

adding rationale commentary to the policy manual

2000-02-06 Thread Joey Hess
I've long felt that one big failing of the policy manual is that it does not include any text describing the rationale behind the rules in it. This leads to problems when newcomers try to figure out why policy is the way it is (and when one-timers forget), it means there is the potential we will

Re: adding rationale commentary to the policy manual

2000-02-06 Thread John Lines
I've long felt that one big failing of the policy manual is that it does not include any text describing the rationale behind the rules in it. This leads to problems when newcomers try to figure out why policy is the way it is (and when one-timers forget), it means there is the potential we