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Brian E Carpenter <brc@zurich.ibm.com> Fri, 20 January 2006 12:45 UTC

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Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
> 
> 
> --On fredag, januar 20, 2006 09:09:42 +0100 Scott W Brim 
> <swb@employees.org> wrote:
> 
>>>>    P6. The revised process should be documented in a new set of 
>>>> coherent
>>>>        and comprehensive documents, rather than updates to the existing
>>>>        ad hoc set.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Apologies; That is a dropoff.  P6 was *supposed* to have vanished.  I
>>> think that actually this a part of the problems and you will find that
>>> there is a new item 10 in the problems.
>>
>>
>> But P6 is still a good idea, wouldn't you say?
>>
> 
> as a good idea (guidance), yes.
> as a requirement for getting anywhere, no.
> 
> my thought.
> 

My thought is that the spaghetti-like nature of the current documents is
actually a problem, especially for newcomers. But it's separate from
the core problem. It's why I wrote draft-carpenter-procdoc-roadmap and why
I intend to maintain that draft.

     Brian


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