Re: Discussing the DMUP

2000-04-25 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000 03:12:40 Philippe Troin wrote: > Of course, we have nothing better to do than playing the Debian > Democracy Game. Indeed. For those who wonder, the game is also called Nomic and the rules are available at: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/nomic.htm Marcus

Re: Discussing the DMUP

2000-04-25 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On 24 Apr 2000, Philippe Troin wrote: > Of course, we have nothing better to do than playing the Debian > Democracy Game. This piece of "policy" is so often used that it > obviously need a rewrite. If this is how many people feel then I would like to simply have the language of the policies in t

Re: Discussing the DMUP

2000-04-25 Thread James R. Van Zandt
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >I was looking at the Debian Machine usage policy (to be found > at http://www.debian.org/devel/dmup>), and found a number of > glaring flaws and omissions. More ominously, I think that unlike the > constitution, the DMUP places uncontrolled pow

Re: Discussing the DMUP

2000-04-25 Thread Philippe Troin
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think it needs a rewrite, and one that should go through a > better review process than the current one did. An document that > determines the rulkes and penalties that the developer community has > to live by should noit be decided by a sma