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On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 15:04, Paul de Vrieze wrote: |
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> > No their status is quite clear according to policy. That practice proves |
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> > otherwise in some cases is in my opinion a developers mistake. |
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> Unfortunately the mistakes happen. We need to look at reality besides from the |
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> policies. If we find policies get violated more than we want we need to do |
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> one of two things: 1) Device a way to make people follow the policy 2) Change |
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> the policy. In this case Ian proposed option 2. I have as yet not seen any |
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> suggestion for option 1, or statements that the amount of violations doesn't |
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> warant action. Further, personally, I think that the policy might be |
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> improved, and tried to use the openoffice example to support that. |
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I think the the problem is uninformedness about the policy, does it even |
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get properly read by new devs ? They assume they can do it because they |
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see another dev do it and so it spreads, you don't solve these problems |
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by accommodating them. |
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- foser |
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