Re: Are we in this for ourselves?
John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> writes:
> My vote is to get rid of the "bad apples". And
> by this, I don't mean get rid of new people or people that don't
> maintain a lot of packages or whatever. I mean get rid of the people
> that insist on causing trouble for us and get in the way of things
> running smoothly. We need to have a procedure for the removal of a
> developer.
I completely disagree. I think that many of the debates, even the
ugly ones, have been instructive, and more importantly, the asmosphere
where everyone feels free to speak their mind is far more valuable
than decreasing the noise. We all know where the "delete" button is
in our various MUA's.
What I *might* agree to is policy about when a developer might be
canned for *intentional* malicious actions like "rm -rf /" in a
postinst, but I really think we can just handle that on a case by case
basis.
> We also need a non-silent project leader. Debian needs more
> leadership, not less.
I've been pretty happy with Ian. He speaks up when he has something
to say, and, as leader, usually only when it's a big deal. I'm pretty
sure (based on his past comments) that he's let any number of things
slide that he didn't particularly like, but weren't a big deal.
Most importantly, I think people may forget we've covered a tremendous
amount of ground recently, and have come to agreement on a surprising
number of issues. People tend to recall only the unresolved
disagreements, but anyone following debian-policy can see that things
are moving well in the right directions.
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Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu>
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