On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 10:12:06AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > Branden, if you weren't so obsessed with your political maneuvering, you > might've realised it'd take less effort and time to write a paragraph > about this yourself and send it off to the developers-reference > maintainers. Of course, maybe your goal's to embarrass ftpmaster or to > waste the the tech-ctte's time or similar, in which case I guess doing > a patch wouldn't do you much good *shrug*. If putting up with you venting your spleen in the above manner is what it takes for us to even present the illusion that: 1) the Technical Committee is a going concern; 2) the Technical Committee's rulings are honored by the archive administration team, and those who are affected by its decisions generally; 3) the archive administration team thinks it's actually a good thing for the requirements that the archive management system makes of Debian developers who upload to it to be documented; and 4) Debian cares in general more about being open to new developers than it does about territorial pissing and accretion of power in the hands of a select few who, frankly, don't give a damn about the Debian Constitution or anything derived from it. ...then I guess it's worth it. We have a Constitution for a reason. Live by it as it stands, or call for its amendment or repeal. Thanks for writing the patch. I still think it would be a good idea if the Technical Committee documented its decision per 6.3.3. -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux | Extra territorium jus dicenti branden@debian.org | impune non paretur. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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