Re: Firmware & Social Contract: GR proposal
Frank =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=FCster?= <frank@debian.org>
> MJ Ray <mjr@phonecoop.coop> wrote:
> > Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au>
> >> Developer only poll: (83 votes) [2]
> >> Option 1 Release etch on time
> >> Option 3 Support hardware that requires sourceless firmware
> >> Option 2 Do not ship sourceless firmware in main
> >> Option 4 None of the above
> >
> > ...and nor are these.
>
> Ah, right, I forgot: neither orthogonal nor contradicting, just mingled
> up. One more reason why I didn't vote. Technically, we can still
> manage to meet Options 1 to 3 of the DD-only poll, although it's highly
> unlikely. [...]
The vote data may still be useful in picking priorities, but it makes
little sense to pick a "winner" in the usual way, or to do anything to
discourage work towards lower priority aims.
That's one reason why I can't agree with the initial proposal (apart from
the big stack of non-answers to my first reply to it): it pretty much
perpetually pooh-poohs several aims, rather than declaring some aims
to be more important than others. I think that was a mistake with the
sarge-ignore GR and is part of the reason we're back here now. Can we
get a release out in a timely way without chilling and insulting help?
Musing,
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