condensed the information about authors into a nice little section of its own and...

Author: joy
Date: 2002/11/15 03:20:33
condensed the information about authors into a nice little section of its own and link to that from the footer, removed pointless personal email addresses, added Overfiend and myself to the list of current maintainers which appears to be in alphabetical order

git-archimport-id: srivasta@debian.org--etch/debian-policy--devel--3.0--patch-153

diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index 5e7bd25f1c8dcdf41dcc3177e4e7eeecd173ed17..1fe5669a25fe72efa076718df26cf53810dd63a1 100644 (file)
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -4,41 +4,11 @@
 <!entity % versiondata SYSTEM "version.ent"> %versiondata;
 ]>
 <debiandoc>
-  <!--
-  Debian GNU/Linux Policy Manual.
-  Copyright (C)1996,1997,1998 Ian Jackson and Christian Schwarz;
-  released under the terms of the GNU
-  General Public License, version 2 or (at your option) any later.
-  Initial version 1996, Ian Jackson, ijackson@gnu.ai.mit.edu
-  Revised November 27, 1996, David A. Morris, bweaver@debian.org
-  New sections March 15, 1997, Christian Schwarz, schwarz@debian.org
-  Reworked/Restructured April-July 1997, Christian Schwarz, schwarz@debian.org
-  Maintainer since 1997, Christian Schwarz, schwarz@debian.org
-  Christoph Lameter contributed the "Web Standard"
-  The debian-policy mailing list has taken responsibility for the
-  contents of this document since September 1998, with the package
-  maintainers responsible for packaging administrivia only.
-  -->
 
   <book>
     <titlepag>
       <title>Debian Policy Manual</title>
-      <author>
-       <name>Ian Jackson </name>
-       <email>ijackson@gnu.ai.mit.edu</email>
-      </author>
-      <author>
-       <name>Christian Schwarz</name>
-       <email>schwarz@debian.org</email>
-      </author>
-      <author>
-       <name>revised: David A. Morris</name>
-       <email>bweaver@debian.org</email>
-      </author>
-      <author>
-       <name>The Debian Policy mailing List</name>
-       <email>debian-policy@lists.debian.org</email>
-      </author>
+      <author><ref id="authors"></author>
       <version>version &version;, &date;</version>
 
       <abstract>
@@ -47,23 +17,12 @@
        contents of the Debian archive and several design issues of
        the operating system, as well as technical requirements that
        each package must satisfy to be included in the distribution.
-       The policy package itself is maintained by a group of
-       maintainers that have no editorial powers.  The current list
-       of maintainers is:
-       <enumlist>
-         <item>
-           <p>Julian Gilbey <email>jdg@debian.org</email></p>
-         </item>
-         <item>
-           <p>Manoj Srivastava <email>srivasta@debian.org</email></p>
-         </item>
-       </enumlist>
       </abstract>
 
 
       <copyright>
        <copyrightsummary>
-         Copyright &copy;1996,1997,1998 Ian Jackson
+         Copyright &copy; 1996,1997,1998 Ian Jackson
          and Christian Schwarz.
        </copyrightsummary>
        <p>
@@ -157,7 +116,6 @@
          merely informative, and are not part of Debian policy itself.
        </p>
 
-
        <p>
          In this manual, the words <em>must</em>, <em>should</em> and
          <em>may</em>, and the adjectives <em>required</em>,
@@ -192,6 +150,7 @@
          only.
        </p>
       </sect>
+
       <sect>
        <heading>New versions of this document</heading>
        <p>
@@ -216,13 +175,36 @@
          changes between versions of this document.
         </p>
       </sect>
-      <sect>
-       <heading>Feedback</heading>
+
+      <sect id="authors">
+        <heading>Authors and Maintainers</heading>
 
        <p>
-         As the Debian GNU/Linux system is continuously evolving this
-         manual does so too.
-       </p>
+          Originally called "Debian GNU/Linux Policy Manual", this
+          manual was initially written in 1996 by Ian Jackson.
+          It was revised on November 27th, 1996 by David A. Morris.
+          Christian Schwarz added new sections on March 15th, 1997,
+          and reworked/restructured it in April-July 1997.
+          Christoph Lameter contributed the "Web Standard".
+        </p>
+
+       <p>
+          Since September 1998, the responsibility for the contents of
+          this document lies on the debian-policy mailing list. Proposals
+          are discussed there and inserted into policy after a certain
+          consensus is established.
+          <!-- insert shameless policy-process plug here eventually -->
+          The actual editing is done by a group of maintainers that have
+          no editorial powers. These are the current maintainers:
+
+          <enumlist>
+            <item>Julian Gilbey</item>
+            <item>Branden Robinson</item>
+            <item>Josip Rodin</item>
+            <item>Manoj Srivastava</item>
+          </enumlist>
+        </p>
+
        <p>
          While the authors of this document have tried hard to avoid
          typos and other errors, these do still occur. If you discover
@@ -232,6 +214,11 @@
          <email>debian-policy@lists.debian.org</email>, or submit a
          bug report against the <tt>debian-policy</tt> package.
        </p>
+
+       <p>
+          Please do not try to reach the individual authors or maintainers
+          of the Policy Manual regarding changes to the Policy.
+        </p>
       </sect>
     </chapt>