Bug#727708: On diversity
Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> writes:
> On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 01:17:13AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
>> I think (a) and (b) are pretty non-controversial. (c) and (d) are
>> required if we want to deal with new GNOME stuff and anything other
>> than systemd probably, and don't seem very hard to either do or
>> document. (e), (f) and (g) seem like a fairly straightforward of
>> allowing for multiple init systems in Debian. I think something like
>> (i) might be a good way of sunsetting tech ctte decisions so if there's
>> an actual consensus in future, there's no need to get a pro-forma vote
>> from the ctte to make changes in future. YMMV of course.
> For my part I think this is generally a good idea, but I have the
> impression that at least Russ would be strongly opposed to this because
> it's too prescriptive. Probably not much sense in fleshing out such a
> resolution if there's not a consensus for it.
I think this is all great work to do. I'm just dubious about enforcing it
with a technical committee decision. This is the sort of thing that I was
expecting to need to do on the Policy front once we have a decision. I
think that's the right forum for drilling into the details.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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