Bug 25790

 On 13 Mar 2001, at 22:23, Trevor Johnson wrote:
 
 > > Hmm, the only thing I see with this (the patch looks ok) is that the
 > > rules in the CG were actually a list of rules that were drafted by
 > > -core and voted on by the committers about a year or so ago.  I'm not
 > > sure one can just add new rules out of the blue, but then again there
 > > is no provision for what to do with proposed changes to the rules.
 > > Nik?
 
 Thanks John.  I'm glad for the support.
 
 On the topic of new rules: if there is no procedure, I'm happy to be the 
 one to prompt the establishment of one.  If the old rules were voted 
 upon, I'd be interested, if only in a academic sense, to see whether or 
 not the committers would vote to include the proposal in addition to [and 
 not instead of one of] the existing rules.  It would be interesting to see 
 and argument against including this as a rule.
 
 And I take your point that it shouldn't need to be explicit.  Rules exist 
 for those that adhere to them and so they can beat upon those that 
 don't.
 
 > Perhaps this could be added under "Other Suggestions" with a note that it
 > was originally requested as a rule.
 
 My preference is to see it as a rule, despite it making it an uneven 11 
 rules instead of a nice round 10.  Making it a suggestion is second 
 best, but it is a start.
 
 cheers
 
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 Dan Langille
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 got any work?  I'm looking for some.