Bug#919951: Request about the /usr/bin/dune filename
On Tue, 22 Jan 2019 14:45:36 +0000 Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@recoil.org>
wrote:
> Dear Debian project leader (CCed), we’ve resolved the rather
> simple technical matter in this thread amicably by directly
> communicating with the upstream software projects involved.
Glad to hear it, that's the way it should be. :)
> However, there are lots of references to what Debian ‘should’
> and ‘must’ do in the above quoted email, but very little clarity on
> Ian Jackson’s actual authority to speak for Debian. Who is he,
> and is he speaking for the Debian project (with insults and all)?
> He appears to have resigned from the Debian Technical Committee
> some years back, but I am not familiar with the internal structure
> of your project.
[...]
> If he *doesn't* speak for Debian, then we’d love to be able to
> directly speak to whoever resolves these matters so that the
> hardworking Debian package maintainer for OCaml can get
> on with his volunteer efforts without being harassed by Ian Jackson.
As with many open source projects, Debian is a collection of volunteers
who each represent the project in various ways in the course of their
day-to-day contributions. We tend to be egalitarian, and while we have
governing bodies and a project leader, those are more of a last resort
when we can't sort things out any other way. Ian can speak for the
Debian project at times (as may any Debian Developer), but most of the
time he is expressing his own personal opinion. He is a long-term member
of the Debian project, and we greatly respect his opinion. But, even he
freely admits that he sometimes speaks more acerbically than the
situation merits.
> I hope that’s clear enough.
Same here, but if it's not, I'm happy to pop over to your office two
doors down to explain further. :)
Allison
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