Re: CTTE and Developer Buy-in [Re: Bug#727708: init system other points, and conclusion]
On Thu, 02 Jan 2014, Ian Jackson wrote:
> And, despite the fact that the decision has become very politicised
> (to some extent along the lines of preexisting camps of strongly
> disagreeing contributors), I think it is primarily a technical
> decision.
The line of thought that you have been defending goes much further than
the simple technical decision IMO. And I'm not sure it's a position that
the whole project can stand behind without a GR.
> If the vast majority of developers hate our decision, the GR process
> would be the right way to fix it. In that case finding K Developers
> to sponsor the GR would be trivial.
>
> Obviously that would be embarrassing for us and substantially damage
> our credibility. But I don't think it's at all likely. Do you ?
I do. I know at least one person who expressed his intent to leave Debian
if Debian wasn't able to make the choice of systemd. So if one is ready to
resign, there will likely be other developers who are ready to start a GR.
Cheers,
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