Re: mixmaster /etc/default/*
On Sun, 02 Dec 2007, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 06:40:36PM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote:
> > Deciding that an issue isn't important enough to make a decision
> > requires making some sort of decision.
>
> No it doesn't, it just requires not noticing an issue -- eg, by it
> not being brought to the tech ctte's attention at all (most
> decisions in Debian), or by the tech ctte missing it when it is
> (429761, 439006), or by the tech ctte leaving it lie (436096).
These are all recent bugs, so presumably they can raised again by
whoever thought originally that they were important.
> That's exactly wrong for the committee -- we should be around to
> work on hard problems, and we shouldn't be spending any time at all
> on the easy ones, which maintainers are already dealing with.
I don't think the current case is an example of the committee looking
for problems to resolve on it's own. Someone disagreed with the
maintainer, and brought the issue to the tech-ctte. The tech-ctte
makes a decision, either by deciding to override, not override, FDing
to death, or ignoring entirely, the latter three being largely the
same outcome.
Furthermore, it seems counterproductive to complain about a decision
on a trivial issue being a waste of time by prolonging the discussion
of a trivial issue. [From my seat in the stands, this is also what
appears to have occured in whatever remains for the RFC 3484 decision
as well... but perhaps that's merely a case of incomplete
communication.]
Don Armstrong
--
We were at a chinese resturant.
He was yelling at the waitress because there was a typo in his fortune
cookie.
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