On 2/9/06, Phil Sandifer <snowspinner at gmail.com> wrote:
On 2/9/06, Steve Bennett <stevage at gmail.com> wrote:
Exactly. I'm not really sure what my point is here, but perhaps we should make a token effort to impress upon people that there *are* policies, and as long as they edit in ignorance of such policies, they should not claim any particular rights or presume anything in particular about the project.
Step #1 - Make the policies readable and intelligible.
We should note that Steve has been working on just that, with the project to put a one-line description at the top of each policy or guideline.
Now we need to hack away at the guidelines removing everything that's aimed at the clueless or at bad-faith editors, because they're the two groups that don't or can't read the guidelines, and writing aimed at them is the #1 source of instruction creep.
Then we can get to work on making sense of badly-written policies ...
- d.