Re: testing and no release schedule

[Steve Greenland <steveg@moregruel.net>]

On 26-Mar-04, 15:50 (CST), Adam McKenna <adam@flounder.net> wrote: 
> On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 03:02:45PM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote:
> > What management? That's exactly the point: Because Debian is a volunteer
> > organization (or rather, because it's an unstructured volunteer
> > organization), you can't tell people what to do.
> 
> That's BS and you know it.

No, it's not. No matter how much any orders or begs me to work on any
particular item to help the release, I'm not going to do it, unless it's
specifically related to my packages. I simply don't have the time.

Several maintainers are on the record as not caring about releases at
all - unstable meets their needs.

Furthermore, unlike some developement groups, there's no history of
authority structures in Debian, and the constitution was written
particularly to prevent such from developing.

> Ooh, you certainly zinged me there.  Love it or leave it, right?  Are we
> still chanting that mantra?

I didn't say you needed to leave, I said you, or rather, those with all
the bright ideas about how it could be better, should just get together
a group and *do* it, rather than telling others what to do. Now's the
time to start. It's too late to change sarge, but if you came with a
proposal and an actual plan to achieve it for sarge+1, I bet there's a
lot of people here who would at least consider it.

> Love, 
> --Adam

Kisses,
Steve

-- 
Steve Greenland
    The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating
    system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the
    world.       -- seen on the net