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From: Olivier Crete <tester@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: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 23:09:36
Message-Id: 1134515103.26856.36.camel@cocagne.max-t.internal
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Changes to date format of current GLEPs (was: GLEP 42 (Critical News Reporting) round five) by Ciaran McCreesh
1 On Tue, 2005-13-12 at 21:09 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2 > On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 15:53:45 -0500 Olivier Crete <tester@g.o>
3 > wrote:
4 > | Why not just modify GlEP 1 ?
5 >
6 > Going back and retroactively modifying standards is icky, and it
7 > *still* doesn't address the issue of documenting why the change was
8 > made.
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10 And why not just adding a changelog to the glep explaining the changes?
11 I really don't like to idea of having to read 8 gleps to find out how to
12 write a glep ... and calling it glep 1.a is a good idea.. or 1.1
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