Proposal: Change to library proposal process

Brandon S Allbery KF8NH allbery at ece.cmu.edu
Sun Jan 2 18:23:12 CET 2011


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On 1/2/11 05:04 , Malcolm Wallace wrote:
>>       A link to a patch implementing the change should be included.
>>       Patches may be hosted anywhere
> 
> This "somewhere on the Internet" thing almost guarantees that the patch will
> not be archived for posterity alongside the discussion.  It makes future
> web-searches less useful than they could be.

+1
I spent last night finding out that a bunch of saved links were dead, either
because the linked-to item was gone or because the hosting server was down.
 Granting that the latter could happen anyway, it at least is helpful for
the linker and the linkee to have the same availability, especially for
official proposals.

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electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university      KF8NH
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