RE: ANOTHER modest proposal -- We need a documentation package

[Dana Lacoste <dana.lacoste@peregrine.com>]

>  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