Hi Michael, On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 3:11 AM, Michael J. Flickinger <mjfl...@gnu.org> wrote: > I'm going to have to agree here. I think any policy change should be made > by consensus via email discussion in a public mailing list, such as > savannah-hackers-public. This way we allow for public commentary on any > proposed changes. Plus, it adds a level of transparency, which other "free" > software development management sites lack.
That is true. I withdraw my appeal to authority and apologize for such a crude resource. > Personally, I sort of see windows-only-software as a dependency issue. If a > project is for "windows only", then windows becomes a requirement to run the > software. When you really boil it down, if a package will only run on > windows, then windows becomes a non-free dependency, which I have trouble > with... especially since it's the operating system... Apparently I am in the minority here, so I withdraw my suggestion for a new rule. Thanks for an interesting discussion which has wandered in directions different than the usual, and where hopefully we have all learned a little bit (I know I have). Alex.
