On Tuesday 15 July 2008 13:08, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > How/if we will support Xen in lenny is more a policy decision than a > technical decision, even if it has important technical aspects. > > Even if it's not optimal, I agree with do-ocracy for technical > decisions. However, using it for everything is dangerous. Instead, I > prefer to: > 1/ understand the situation > 2/ determine the possible solutions > 3/ determine the best solutions, given external constraints (inc. > manpower) > 4/ try to find someone to do the work > > Throwing "you are not going to do the work anyway, so you are > irrelevant" at everybody is not helpful at all, and just adds noise to > the discussion, because we are still between stages 2 and 3 here. I find it a pity that your mail doesn't contain any argumentation for your postulations. For a start, I don't think it's obvious that this is a policy decision, nor that a "do-ocracy is dangerous" in a general sense. Xen is just one solution to virtualisation. I may agree that a general decision to support virtualisation on Debian could be a policy decision, but whether we'll support one specific technology, for which there are many alternatives, is very much a technical decision. Does it work, can we get it to work and do we have the people to keep it work after release? Thijs
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