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From: Francesco Riosa <vivo@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Changes to date format of current GLEPs (was: GLEP 42 (Critical News Reporting) round five)
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 00:12:33
Message-Id: 439F628F.8020408@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Changes to date format of current GLEPs (was: GLEP 42 (Critical News Reporting) round five) by Olivier Crete
1 Olivier Crete wrote:
2 > On Tue, 2005-13-12 at 21:09 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
3 >> On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 15:53:45 -0500 Olivier Crete <tester@g.o>
4 >> wrote:
5 >> | Why not just modify GlEP 1 ?
6 >>
7 >> Going back and retroactively modifying standards is icky, and it
8 >> *still* doesn't address the issue of documenting why the change was
9 >> made.
10 >
11 > And why not just adding a changelog to the glep explaining the changes?
12 > I really don't like to idea of having to read 8 gleps to find out how to
13 > write a glep ... and calling it glep 1.a is a good idea.. or 1.1
14 >
15
16 agree, have to dig multiple places to get the history of a document is
17 annoying.
18
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