Ciaran, Is there any way that the public can view the PMS spec that you have created so far?
I am not totally familiar with how you are going about developing PMS, but based on some of your comments in this thread I'm a little bit concerned. -Daniel On 2/20/07, Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 23:47:04 +0100 "Denis Dupeyron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On 2/20/07, Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > This is standard practice for professional standards, and is the | | Now you talk about this, a standard is, in standard practice, the | result of a collaborative effort of representing members of the | organization(s) that is (are) supposed to adhere to said standard. I | believe I don't need then to explain you how far what happens around | PMS is from standard practice. You know that real standards aren't a free for all, right? They're usually written by a small group, and then commented on by interested parties when they're already well into being written. Which is exactly what we're doing... | You say you want to avoid endless discussions "in the interest of | getting it finished". Now, if your work is that good, why would there | be any discussions about it? Because there are a lot of people with opinions out there, and they will all start saying things like "well it would be better if things were like $blah, so you should change it to say $blah". Have a look at the amount of noise that comes up any time this kind of discussion takes place on this list... Heck, have a look at the number of people already trying to comment upon how the standard is being written without having seen it... | If it's not good enough, why wouldn't you let us talk about it and | make it better? We will let you (for values of you where your opinion is useful and relevant) discuss it when it is at an appropriate stage. | Also, if it goes in the wrong direction, one that | Gentoo devs won't follow, what's the point in finishing it? It isn't going in the wrong direction. The third parties who have access to it will tell you that. -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail : ciaranm at ciaranm.org Web : http://ciaranm.org/ Paludis, the secure package manager : http://paludis.pioto.org/
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