Re: Future of Debian uncertain?
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 05:22:29PM -0800, Philip Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 05:35:17PM -0500, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote:
> > Show me where in our constitution, social contract, or any other
> > official document we make the official claim that we are "aiming at more
> > experienced users". We make no such claim.
> >....
> In fact, just the opposite, if you take item #4 in the social contract at
> face value:
>
> 4. Our Priorities are Our Users and Free Software
>
> "We will be guided by the needs of our users and the free-software
> community. We will place their interests first in our priorities. We will
> support the needs of our users for operation in many different kinds of
> computing environment." ...
>
> It is certainly in the interests of "our users" to have an easy-to-use
> system. Nor is this directly in conflict with having advanced options
> available "on the side".
I am for helping newbie user for Debian. I do and will spend time to
improve Debian's usability from Documentation and other means.
Having said it, I have no illusion about situation and above argument is
somewhat flawed.
If you look at actual *current* Debian users, they are mostly people who
are comfortable with shell prompts. As long as our _USERS_ stay this
way, Debian is aiming at *experienced users* according to item #4.
If item #4 is "... needs of our *prospectus* users ...", you may be
right.
Cheers.
Osamu
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