Bug#975075: tech-ctte: Should maintainers be able to block init compatibility changes?
❦ 15 décembre 2020 11:14 GMT, Mark Hindley:
>> Okay, great, I now see a clearer argument in favour of dropping the init
>> script: enabling the maintainer to preemptively avoid dealing with bugs
>> which are likely to generate hostility, rather than just the idea that
>> there could be bugs which would generate a lot of technical work for the
>> maintainer in which the maintainer does not see much value.
>
> I am afraid I don't agree with this.
>
> Hostility is never justified or justifiable and none of us should ever have to be
> subject to it or tolerate it. However, using the avoidance of putative poor
> behaviour by others in the future as a justification for a current or past action
> seems a weak argument to me. IMO, the best way to promote the ideals of
> tolerance, courtesy, humility and openness is by espousing them in one's actions
> and by doing the right thing.
Poor behaviour happened in the past. Almost nothing (literally) is
needed to trigger a flamewar around an initscript.
https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20171024.145026.a763a9da.en.html
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