From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EYD8m-0006y8-1D for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 05 Nov 2005 01:46:44 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jA51k0Zg000333; Sat, 5 Nov 2005 01:46:00 GMT Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.199]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jA51iDax000706 for ; Sat, 5 Nov 2005 01:44:14 GMT Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i24so17902wra for ; Fri, 04 Nov 2005 17:44:13 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=JLYPBQJru/fxnCpK5ILOlfMWsx6vXZSwrujpnC12KWaBdW+jPcMNDKB9TmU0vYqW2EV4fQt8trjxKcl634IPbTmfUZ/+33OOtaMpm5nZRkk7OVHwx0lEPnNg+vG850zIYo/0WiR8VYZt8r/OoH4m+vNEiNj4NP4uUu9FlXdKug8= Received: by 10.54.143.14 with SMTP id q14mr2225880wrd; Fri, 04 Nov 2005 17:44:13 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.110.20 with HTTP; Fri, 4 Nov 2005 17:44:13 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <46059ce10511041744l73b96789n98c6cebe3f8714d0@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 20:44:13 -0500 From: Dan Meltzer To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 "Critical News Reporting" Round Two In-Reply-To: <20051105005814.0de0d8ff@snowdrop.home> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Disposition: inline References: <20051105005814.0de0d8ff@snowdrop.home> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from base64 to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id jA51iDax000706 X-Archives-Salt: a6a62501-ca01-43b4-87bc-dd5d4ec8df61 X-Archives-Hash: 5b6d070e8e84acb56d7376d8fe4dcf22 >``Content-Type:`` > Must be ``text/plain``. Mandatory. Why have this header at all then? > ``Posted:`` > Date of posting, in ``dd-mmm-yyyy`` format (e.g. 14-Aug-2001). UTC time in > ``hh-mm-ss +0000`` format may also be included. This field is mandatory. How will prescendse be handled if two have the same date, and one has a time and the other doesn't? On 11/4/05, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Attached is a substantially reworked draft. I've restructured the whole > thing, fleshed it out in places, clarified some parts and incorporated > the useful stuff from previous discussions. > > Note: this is now GLEP 42 as allocated by Grant. AFAIK ChrisWhite's GLEP > of the same number never made it to official status. > > Feedback from people who have something useful to say would be very much > welcomed, assuming of course that they've read the GLEP. > > If you're going to rant on about XML or anything that assumes we have a > static release Debian-style against which we somehow make > 'corrections', you'll be ignored unless you come up with a very good > justification based upon requirements and implementation rather than > hand waving and incoherent rants. If you don't like it, you're welcome > to write a competing GLEP. > > To give those who like arguing endlessly something else to go on about, > the eselect news module is now upgraded to the 'suggested' tool for > displaying news items. Look! I'm sneakily and evilly pushing a sekrit > agenda here! Also, I murdered three puppies last night. > > Grant, please commit this to CVS. I'm too scared of docutils to do it > myself. > > -- > Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Anti-XML, anti-newbie conspiracy) > Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org > Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm > > > > -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list