[kde-community] Discussion: KDE Manifesto, "established practices"

[Kevin Ottens]

On Monday 18 November 2013 17:40:36 Thomas Pfeiffer wrote:
> On 18.11.2013 17:31, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > If people really feel the name, the “established practices” could link to:
> > 	http://techbase.kde.org/Policies
> > 
> > This would be much like how the CoC is linked to rather than included in
> > the Manifesto. The language on the Policies page would need adjustment
> > and the list of links would need updating.
> 
> This makes sense to me. We can write on the Policies page that its
> content will change over time if we want to make that absolutely clear,
> but linking to an overview page with links to relevant policies sounds
> way better to me than basically saying "We have policies, please look
> them up yourself".
> If people are supposed to look them up themselves, neither we nor they
> can be sure that they have read all the relevant ones.
> Besides, such an overview page should be available for practical reasons
> anyway. We should not have people sift through the Wiki in search for
> policies which may or may not be relevant to them, with or without the
> Manifesto. Overview pages are good, and linking to this one from the
> Manifesto may serve as an additional incentive to keep it up to date.

Sounds like a good compromise to me, integrated that locally:
"The project stays true to [established practices]
(http://techbase.kde.org/Policies) common to similar KDE projects"

That was the last loose end on my side. I'll prepare a round 2 soon.

Regards.
-- 
Kévin Ottens, http://ervin.ipsquad.net

KDAB - proud supporter of KDE, http://www.kdab.com

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