Hey. On Wed, 2014-11-19 at 13:08 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote: >I am resigning from the Technical Committee with immediate effect. Again, what a shame :-( Thanks for all your work, I'd say the same what I've just written about Russ applies to you as well. You far-sight and technical knowledge will be deeply missed. I can fully understand that you feel very exhausted, especially since you've seemed to have become the direct target for many accusations and political issues. But especially since you "represent" the views of quite a number of DDs and also users of Debian, your resignation at this point is even more regretful. While personally I think systemd should be the default in Debian (well at least if it would be used in a way not just to rebuild sysvinit in systemd - but to use its full potential), and while I think that legacy systems should migrate to it on upgrade (unless people opt-out), I fully agree with your opinions about init-system-coupling, etc.. In the long term, the majority may simply destroy the basis of minority and of diversity. Likely we've already seen first signs of this with what's happening to kfreebsd. When a majority (or at least a larger group) has a strong technical and/or political agenda, others (whose wishes and technical views aren't less valid or important) often have to suffer and diversity dies. I don't want to imply that groups like GNOME would do this intentionally or in bad faith, not at all,... it simply happens as a side effect of being a big group, powerful or even the majority. GNOME seems to largely focus on desktop/single user models and to fully focus on systemd - so in the long term other projects will have to follow that or be less supported, or suffer show-stopper issues. This doesn't mean GNOME=evil, it just means the consequences of their decisions may very well affect others to a great deal and especially have a negative impact on diversity. Right now of course, all this seems to be a rather political and uncertain issue (which is also among the reasons why the TC and you were so heavily attacked) - but it can very well be, that the political questions of today, become the technical problems of tomorrow - only that it's likely to late then. In real world politics, there are laws to protect minorities - Debian apparently is to frightened of making such "laws" at the moment :-( I'd guess in the long-term this will mean a big loss for Debian and for FLOSS at large. > I myself am > clearly too controversial a figure at this point to do so. Mhh to me it seems that you were made that controversial figure largely for political reasons. Actually, such actions seemed to have become more common (on all sides) recently: - people threatening to fork Debian - people threatening to leave it - people abusing CoC other other things to silence others > The majority of the project The majority of those who took part in voting! > I now hope to spend more of my free software time doing programming. > dgit is at the top of my Debian queue, but some of my GNU and SGO > projects could do with attention too. Good to not see you leaving Debian :) Thanks as well for all your efforts, especially for fighting for your "controversial" beliefs, Chris.
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