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From: Dana Lacoste <dana.lacoste@peregrine.com>
To: "'Chris Ricker'" <kaboom@gatech.edu>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: World Domination Now! <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: ANOTHER modest proposal -- We need a documentation package
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 07:03:05 -0800
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>  For example,
> no one owns linux/Documentation.  As the person nominally in charge of
> linux/Documentation/Changes, there's no one between me and 
> you, period, let
> alone anyone between me and you that you trust....  And I 
> realize that you
> don't consider documentation very important, but there are 
> other segments of
> the Linux source tree for which this breakdown in hierarchy 
> is also true....

Here's an idea :
Take linux/Documentation and split it into a separate package.
that way Linus doesn't need to care about documentation, it can
be maintained separately.  Having documentation packages co-released
with the kernel, but separately maintained would fix this problem,
would it not?

Dana Lacoste
Ottawa, Canada
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