On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 11:24:53PM +1000, Pascal Hakim wrote: > > I think a suitable section in debian policy would be appropriate. And > > mere technical discussions about the policy contents are also > > appropriate in d-policy. All other technical discussions should go > > in an alioth list. My suggestion of an alioth list is due to > > Do the policy discussion on the new list, and make a new debian web apps > sub policy, in the same way we have perl and emacs policies. Leave the > main debian policy out of it, until we have something that works, and is > used by most web apps. This is how the system is meant to work. >
That's what I said in an involute manner :-) > > current discouraging (and long delays) for a new proper list on > > lists.debian.org. If interested people would think a l.d.o list > > is better, that could also be nice. > > Once you've got me convinced the list is a good idea, it usually doesn't > take too long to create it. > I think the list would be useful in the initial period. Once a decent policy would be ready, the true job will move on common tools development, while general policy discussions would be naturally hosted in d-policy, eventually. So, I'm not sure such kind of list will be useful for a long period. Of course, we could discuss about the meaning of 'long' in Debian metrics... -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]