On Mon, Sep 04, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
It would appear that the number of people that read and take texts the literal RFC way is on the rise, and that the same s/SHOULD/MUST/g; operation might be necessary for the openSUSE wiki concerning package submissions. The texts would then be less ambiguous when it comes to disputed positions, though also change to a stricter atmosphere, which might be an impediment for new-time users.
Like public places getting their "please clean up after your pet" signs replaced by "$100 fine, you idiot". That hardly sounds like a solution.
You are mixing up two different things: Nobody cares if you use a green, brown or black bag to clean up after your pet. Important is, that you clean up after your pet. Same with the openSUSE wiki concerning package submissions: There is a lot of "best practice", where it does not matter how exactly this is done, only that it is done. Like it makes no difference if you use a brown or a black bag. And then there are things, where it really makes a difference how you do it. Like putting the bag in a trash can or throwing it behind the next bush. If we speak about pure cosmetical things, which have absolut no influence on the build process, the package, or what the user will see, I don't like to be forced to a style some few people prefer for personal reasons. And I'm absolute sure I'm not the only one. Here we should stay with the "best practice" style and write how it is done preferrable, but not make the life of other harder than needed by enforcing it for no good reason. It's different if you look at things, which make a real difference in the result. This should be enforced and clearly documented, why we need to enforce it. Like with *-devel-static: else we cannot find out, which packages need a security update. Thorsten -- Thorsten Kukuk, Distinguished Engineer, Senior Architect SLES & CaaSP SUSE LINUX GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany GF: Felix Imendoerffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nuernberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner@opensuse.org