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