Bug#746715: the foreseeable outcome of the TC vote on init systems
Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:
> I do think there is still something for the TC to do here. As Andi
> writes, the TC failed to clarify that we expect people to continue to
> support multiple init systems. Evidently this was a mistake.
On what grounds do you think it was a mistake? As soon as someone talked
to the maintainer in question and asked them to re-add support, support
was almost immediately re-added.
Sounds to me like our normal processes worked properly as soon as they
were attempted, which is exactly the rationale that Keith presented
originally for not over-dictating to the project how to go about its work.
We have a long tradition of not making formal rulings on things that
resolved themselves before we could get around to putting together a
ballot, for much the same reasons that courts usually do the same. I
think that tradition serves us well and that we should stick with it.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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