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Author: Hendrik Boom
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Devuan Constitu..?
On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 09:39:08PM +0200, natacha wrote:
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> Hi,
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> On 09/28/2015 08:10 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
> > Hi natacha,The first four sections look pretty standard.
> Yes, it is standard and very minimal, by curiosity, which txt are you
> talking about?
> > But if you haven't done a fairly accurate assessment of how the
> > community actually getswork done, it's highly unlikely that what is
> > written about governance will reflect reality.
> What is up there is only a draft for possible organisation, and I
> agree needs to be grounded on the functioning of the community, this
> is actually what this process is about.
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> Insteadit will confuse and frustrate newcomers, who will be forced to
> learn two sets of "rules"-- oneofficial one that's clear yet largely
> ineffectual, the other unspoken, complex, and real. (Thereare also
> many other problems that can happen from this, but that alone should
> be sufficientto be persuasive.


Perhaps what we need is a document that describes how devuan does operate
rather than one that says how it ought to operate. A descriptive, rathr
than a prescriptive document.

Maybe we'll need the prescriptve document later, but the descriptive one
will do for now.

-- hendrik