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
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
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
[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,
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,
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
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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.
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
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
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