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List of Policies

Policy	Original URL	Status	Reviewer	Proofreader
Alternatives policy	[1]	NS
Bug Policy	[2]	Done	Ahmad Samir
Charset	[3]	NS
DKMS Packaging Policy	[4]	Done	Daniel Kreuter	Leandro Dorileo
Drakxtools Policy	[5]	Needs Proofreading	Daniel Kreuter
Fonts Policy	[6]	Needs Proofreading	Daniel Kreuter
Freeze Policy	[7]	NS
Haskell Packaging Policy	[8]	WIP	Brian Bailey
Hunspell-dictionary Policy
Initscripts Policy	[9]	Needs Proofreading	Daniel Kreuter
Java Packaging Policy	[10] / [11]	discussed in the ML	Daniel Kreuter
KDE4 Policy	[12]	Needs Proofreading	Daniel Kreuter
Kernel Patches	[13]	Needs Proofreading	Leandro Dorileo
Library policy	[14]	WIP	Rémy Clouard
Libtool Archives Policy	[15]	NS
Licensing policy	[16]	Needs Proofreading	Rémy Clouard
Localisation policy	[17]	Needs Proofreading	Daniel Kreuter
LSB Packaging	[18]	WIP	Brian Bailey
Maintainers Policy	[19] / [20]	WIP	Brian Bailey
Mirrors Policy	[21] / [22]/ [23]	Done	Thomas Backlund
Multiarch Policy	[24]	NS
OCaml Packaging Policy	[25]	WIP	Brian Bailey
Packaging for beginners		Needs reviewing
Packaging hints		Needs reviewing
Perl Packaging Policy	[26]	Done	Rémy Clouard	Jérôme Quelin
Post-Release Support Policy	[27]	NS
Preversions	[28]	NS
Python Packaging Policy	[29]	Needs Proofreading	PhilippeM, Htgoebel	Htgoebel
(Repository System)	[30]	Some parts should be imported (eg: commit messages)
RPM Groups	[31]	Done	Rémy Clouard
RPM SPEC file Syntax	[32]	Discussed in ML	Rémy Clouard
Ruby Packaging Policy	[33]	discussed in the ml	Rémy Clouard
SSL Certificates	[34]	NS
TCL Packaging Policy	[35]	NS
Versioning Scheme	[36]	NS
Web Applications Policy	[37]	discussed in the ml	Daniel Kreuter
XDG menu system policy	[38]	NS
Xorg Policy	[39]	NS
RPM Howto	[40]	Is tutorial/howto, not a policy

How To review policies

1. Take a policy in the list
2. Add your name on the table in the row of this policy
3. Take your time to review it
   • Import it in the wiki, unless you think the page should be dropped
   • In case you don’t know if something could be pasted verbatim say so by putting a bold text in front of it
   • If the page you want to import does not specify a particular license, or use a license that’s incompatible with ours, you should create that page with a mention at the end of the page, saying which license is used on this page.
     • Example:This page is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License
4. Mail the mageia-dev ml, for either proofreading or dropping the page
5. Until a process is defined for changing them, you can discuss these matters on the mailing-list (open a dedicated thread for that)