Re: Debian doesn't have to be slower than time.
On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Michael Stone wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 09:43:20AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > > Previously Michael Stone wrote:
> > > > OTOH, there are many people who *don't* care about unicode support--why
> > > > should they have to wait for a new release? Everyone's got a pet
> >
> > IF that is the way to go, they will have to wait because it is for the
> > common good of the project. It is THAT simple.
>
> It's amazing how selfish people can be about determining the common good
> of the project.
Hmm? What are you talking about?
Did you read that "if" ? And how do you suppose release goals are set, hmm?
By a single person, with no regards to what the group thinks? We may have
roundabout ways on those things in this project, but if there is enough
opposition to something, it won't be done.
If the group decides that unicode support is worth enough to become a
release goal, and the release manager approves, then so be it. I know for a
fact I would do whatever I could to get unicode up to shape in my packages.
If we were testing the "force everybody to help get the new release
out-of-the-door" and that forced some of my packages not to be updated, then
I would put them up in people.d.o/~hmh or something like that. Big deal.
Now, if you want to call something in this project "selfish", let's talk about
the maintainers that walk away on their responsabilities and don't even tell
us so, causing all the MIA problems, shall we?
--
"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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