Currently the guidelines are bloated with proposals for exceptions.
How about we keep the guidelines clean and simple, and either relax their status from commandments to guidelines, or setup an Anti-guidelines wiki page where temporary exceptions are listed.
I'm concerned that new packagers, or packagers revisiting the guidelines will need to filter the proper guidelines out of the exceptions, or mistake the exceptions for rules.
On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 05:01 +0100, Axel Thimm wrote:
Currently the guidelines are bloated with proposals for exceptions.
Instead of calling them 'exceptions' we should just face that they are the guidelines as they are now, and document on a separate page how we want to change the guidelines in the future, who needs to do what etc.
I agree that it's confusing to call some of the existing guidelines 'exceptions' - that shouldn't matter to anybody submitting a package today.
David
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