Re: Alternative proposal: reaffirm maintainers technical competence over the software they maintain
>>>>> "Arno" == Arno Töll <arno@debian.org> writes:
Arno> Hi Kurt,
Arno> On 20.10.2014 21:33, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
>> So the question is going to be if this options overrides #746715
>> or not. I didn't look into it yet, so I might be turning 1 or
>> more of the options into overrding the TC and put them under
>> 4.1.4.
Arno> I do not follow you on this argumentation. The amendment text
Arno> does not disagree with, or overrule, the resolution #746715 in
Arno> any way. It does not endorse maintainers to drop support for a
Arno> particular init system. Quite in contrary, it emphasizes to
Arno> focus on the best user experience ("Debian package maintainers
Arno> [shall] provide the best free software to our users") which,
Arno> of course, also includes users of non-default init systems.
I actually think the amendment text does provide a different emphasis
than the TC ruling. The TC ruling expects that maintainers will
generally support multiple init systems. The amendment text focuses on
user experience. I might well decide (I happen to believe) that systemd
provides a better user experience for enough users that if I were
judging based only on user experience I would drop sysvinit support.
so, I think the amendment text shifts the emphasis of our decisions and
as such overrules the TC.
--Sam
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