Bug#741573: #741573: Menu Policy and Consensus

[Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>]

Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org> wrote: 
        That seems very unlikely to me.  Diversity is an important part of
        Debian.  I think it is likely that the TC is going to value the Debian
        Menu as long as Bill or someone else is going to work on it.  I would
        expect us to value the menu enough to enable those who want to
        contribute to it to do so.

Given the state menu is in, reading this is… flabbergasting, to say the
least. I would answer tons of things, but fortunately they have already
been put together concisely: http://islinuxaboutchoice.com/ 

        I think that's consistent with the consensus proposal that you asked us
        to consider in this bug.

The consensus proposal was, in order to preserve some bits of Bill’s
ego, to let menu die slowly by stopping to require mandatory entries for
a useless menu system that only a handful of obscure window managers are
still able to display. Now that Bill has made very clear, by completely
giving in to ridicule, that his ego should not be a problem, Charles is
merely proposing to accelerate that process and avoid pain for everyone.

-- 
Joss