From: Russ Allbery Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: [History] The Guidelines: a preliminary revision history Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 12:47:46 -0800 Organization: The Eyrie Lines: 173 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: windlord.stanford.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: news.Stanford.EDU 1013892466 22643 171.64.13.23 (16 Feb 2002 20:47:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@news.stanford.edu User-Agent: Gnus/5.090005 (Oort Gnus v0.05) XEmacs/21.4 (Common Lisp, sparc-sun-solaris2.6) Cancel-Lock: sha1:57LxTP7QxNxWTiHZiYh0neDUcvo= Joe Bernstein writes: > RUSS ALLBERY, author > RUSS ALLBERY, reviser > June 29, 1998 > Sample Message-ID: > I'm quite certain that I don't have the entire revision history of this > document, given that I have only eight versions and we are now on > "revision 0.35", but here's an account of what I do have. This is, of > course, the existing (though officially unofficial) process. revision 0.35 date: 2001/11/02 00:44:12; author: eagle; state: Exp; lines: +7 -6 Include a clarification of the rules for combining or separating proposals (point 5) avoiding the word bundling, based on language from Jim Riley. ---------------------------- revision 0.34 date: 2001/06/09 12:15:48; author: eagle; state: Exp; lines: +6 -2 Clarify the policy on the bundling of related proposals. ---------------------------- revision 0.33 date: 2000/11/27 03:54:29; author: eagle; state: Exp; lines: +21 -15 Add a point explicitly dealing with munged or invalid addresses, clarifying that they do not count and explaining that the votetaker will send an acknowledgement for each vote. State that it's the responsibility of the voter to investigate the status of their vote. ---------------------------- revision 0.32 date: 2000/02/05 19:21:21; author: eagle; state: Exp; lines: +2 -2 Component length increased to twenty characters for newsgroup names. ---------------------------- revision 0.31 date: 1999/03/28 09:22:23; author: eagle; state: Exp; lines: +6 -3 Modified point 13 to change four months to 120 days and to add a note that if a proposal goes without an RFD or PQ for 120 days, it is considered withdrawn. ---------------------------- revision 0.30 date: 1999/03/14 23:55:45; author: eagle; state: Exp; lines: +2 -2 Fixed doubled word in point 10. ---------------------------- revision 0.29 date: 1999/03/14 14:06:28; author: eagle; state: Exp; lines: +20 -2 Added additional posting headers, switched to my header format from tale's, and included a special note about the status of this document. ---------------------------- revision 0.28 date: 1998/11/27 06:10:11; author: eagle; state: Exp; lines: +1 -1 Fixed the revision date. ---------------------------- revision 0.27 date: 1998/11/27 06:09:11; author: eagle; state: Exp; lines: +7 -7 Added some wording changes and some clarifications from Jim Riley. ---------------------------- revision 0.26 date: 1998/07/18 08:22:33; author: eagle; state: Exp; lines: +15 -9 Reworked the introduction again. ---------------------------- revision 0.25 date: 1998/07/02 06:17:52; author: eagle; state: Exp; lines: +10 -6 Introductory paragraph reworded a bit. ---------------------------- revision 0.24 date: 1998/06/29 07:28:32; author: eagle; state: Exp; lines: +2 -2 Clarified the note about crossposting RFDs to moderated groups slightly. ---------------------------- revision 0.23 date: 1998/06/29 07:22:48; author: eagle; state: Exp; lines: +5 -4 Added a note saying that the CFV is normally posted to the same groups as the RFD was. ---------------------------- revision 0.22 date: 1998/05/20 15:10:24; author: eagle; state: Exp; lines: +5 -5 Added more changes from Rebecca. ---------------------------- revision 0.21 date: 1998/05/15 06:53:06; author: eagle; state: Exp; lines: +1 -1 Changed punctuation to clarify the issue with psuedonyms. ---------------------------- revision 0.20 date: 1998/05/15 06:50:28; author: eagle; state: Exp; lines: +4 -4 Tweaked the wording of the first rule. ---------------------------- revision 0.19 date: 1998/05/02 06:36:39; author: eagle; state: Exp; lines: +4 -4 Changed the note about the result discussion to indicate that news.groups is where it takes place. ---------------------------- revision 0.18 date: 1998/04/28 05:54:20; author: eagle; state: Exp; lines: +37 -40 Added in changes from Jeanne. ---------------------------- revision 0.17 date: 1998/04/19 08:31:31; author: eagle; state: Exp; lines: +3 -2 More clarifications. ---------------------------- revision 0.16 date: 1998/04/18 06:27:44; author: eagle; state: Exp; lines: +37 -33 Rewordings and clarifications. ---------------------------- revision 0.15 date: 1998/04/17 01:58:29; author: eagle; state: Exp; lines: +4 -7 Saved a few lines by wording things a bit more succinctly. ---------------------------- revision 0.14 date: 1998/04/16 04:39:35; author: eagle; state: Exp; lines: +53 -55 Added in a bunch of changes from Jim Riley, among others, and reordered some of the points concerning when RFDs can be rejected. ---------------------------- revision 0.13 date: 1998/04/08 12:05:33; author: eagle; state: Exp; lines: +4 -4 Removal via renaming clarified to be removal via merging with an existing group. ---------------------------- revision 0.12 date: 1998/04/08 10:40:44; author: eagle; state: Exp; lines: +13 -7 Added mention of additional subjective points, clarified the precedence rules for overlapping proposals, changed tabled to suspended due to English meaning, clarified the rules for vote validity, including explicitly giving votetakers the ability to declare votes invalid due to actions detrimental to the integrity of the vote. ---------------------------- revision 0.11 date: 1998/04/08 08:24:15; author: eagle; state: Exp; lines: +7 -8 Minor wording tweaks. ---------------------------- revision 0.10 date: 1998/04/08 08:13:54; author: eagle; state: Exp; lines: +11 -10 Tweaks to the wording concerning what groups should be crossposted to at the RFD stage. ---------------------------- revision 0.9 date: 1998/04/08 07:27:56; author: eagle; state: Exp; lines: +1 -1 Typo fix. ---------------------------- revision 0.8 date: 1998/03/13 07:51:05; author: eagle; state: Exp; lines: +1 -1 Changed the range of what points are subjective. ---------------------------- revision 0.7 date: 1998/03/13 01:52:34; author: eagle; state: Exp; lines: +11 -10 Changed the archive name, added several other wording clarifications and minor grammatical changes. ---------------------------- revision 0.6 date: 1998/03/12 09:40:35; author: eagle; state: Exp; lines: +1 -1 Updated the last change date. ---------------------------- revision 0.5 date: 1998/03/12 07:52:36; author: eagle; state: Exp; lines: +3 -1 Added mention of the PQ to point 14. ---------------------------- revision 0.4 date: 1998/02/26 07:32:05; author: eagle; state: Exp; lines: +2 -2 Missed a qualification that only applies to the first CFV. ---------------------------- revision 0.3 date: 1998/02/26 05:16:28; author: eagle; state: Exp; lines: +100 -85 Incorporated many, many changes from David Lawrence, Jonathan Grobe, Kate Wrightson, and numerous others. ---------------------------- revision 0.2 date: 1998/02/25 10:55:15; author: eagle; state: Exp; lines: +3 -3 Typos. ---------------------------- revision 0.1 date: 1998/02/25 10:49:20; author: eagle; state: Exp; *** empty log message *** -- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)