On 5/13/06, Guy Chapman aka JzG guy.chapman@spamcop.net wrote:
On Sat, 13 May 2006 09:04:47 -0400, you wrote:
The point is, those of you claiming that this CSD is an edict from above have so far provided no evidence that it actually is.
Like I said, you are well behind the curve here. See the archives of this list, the proceedings of ArbCom around January and any one of a hundred other places around the project, like the userbox debates subsection of DRV. It was discussed to death, which probably explains why nobody is over keen to rehash the argument right now.
I've done quite a bit of research on this, and I haven't seen a single edict.
But let me ask you a question: why should it be a problem having userboxes spread by copy & paste or by subst from userspace, rather than provided through template space?
Hasn't this been discussed to death?
Copy and paste is more difficult than using templates. If it's made absolutely clear that the template rule does not apply to templates in the user space, then I suppose that's an acceptable compromise.
Anthony