❦ 23 octobre 2016 19:53 +1030, Ron <ron@debian.org> : >> So, nothing will move on your side until I bring some proof that "nobody >> is interested in htags". Well, I won't bring any such proof either. > > That was a claim _you_ made in bringing this to the TC. Are you really > saying now that you have no basis at all for making it? There are several people (15 of them) in both bug reports asking for a new upstream release. None of them said they were using the CGI stuff. >> Your mail should show the TC you don't intend on bringing any solution >> other than the status quo. > > That isn't what I said at all. What I'm saying is that there is no way > we can avoid _some_ potential user not losing here, whatever we do. > That's just a plain and simple and awful fact of the situation. > > So if you don't want to be the one who loses from whatever consensus > we do arrive at as the best of a bunch of bad options, you're probably > going to need to present a slightly more compelling argument than > "I can't be bothered doing any work to help decide what's really best". > > Trying to play procedural games and hoping that luck might fall your > way because you threw the dice is really not very helpful for making > a good technical decision here. > > I'm appalled at the status quo. My concern is that we don't make > that even worse with uninformed decisions. In the absence of good > information, sometimes the best thing to do is be patient until > more of it arrives. But I'm happy to talk it out here and see if we > can arrive at some informed consensus, even if it's only so that we > can have some more independent and objective input to put an end to > the "ooh, that nasty maintainer won't do what I want" side of it. Let's see what the TC thinks. I don't have more arguments to bring to this debate. -- When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes. -- Dylan Thomas
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