Re: Senseless Bickering and Overpoliticization
[ I am not a Debian developer ]
On Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 09:23:07AM -0700, Brent Fulgham wrote:
> We really need a system of representative decision making in
> Debian. We are too far into the Bazaar mentality, such that no
> decisions are ever made, and there are no responsible parties to
> decide when argument has been exhausted and *SOMEONE* needs to
> say "this is how it will be." While that may be distasteful to
> the true anarchist/libertarian types, the increasing length of
> time between releases and the overall slow grinding of our
> organizational gears shows that something needs to be done.
I agree fully. I was thinking of suggesting something like this before, but
didn't know exactly how. Your suggestion hits the bulls-eye.
>
> We should probably elect various persons in our group to be
> in charge of various activities or sections of the archive.
> These people would then be a smaller subset of "arguers", and
> consensus should be more readily reached.
>
> I think this would streamline things tremendously. I for one
> could care less if we use /usr/doc vs. /usr/share/doc, etc.,
> and would just like to know how our distribution wants to do
> it -- and then get on with the business of building the greatest
> distribution out there.
>
> Why do we waste so much time on all of this minutia? It doesn't
> amount to a hill of beans.
>
agreed
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