On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 03:03:35PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> It's very easy to say "We should be more transparent! Yay for being
> upfront and honest!", but, quite frankly it's *way* too time consuming
> in practice.
Wrong. The simple fact is that in this project we are all accountable
to each other, a point that somehow never fails to get made to me when
it's *my* screwup, like the 'exec "$REALSTARTUP"' issue from earlier in
XFree86 4.1.0 cycle.
There's a difference between disposing of people's redundant questions
by pointing them to a FAQ or other established explanatory document, and
having the right to dismiss their concerns without explanation, or
without one that can be found if you're not already familiar with the
situation.
Indeed, a resource for exactly this kind of issue ("my package has been
sitting in the incoming queue/queue new forever, what's going on?") has
been proposed, but was rejected by those whose opinons were apparently
controlling.
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2001/debian-devel-200109/msg01608.html
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Debian GNU/Linux | complicated way only to be able to
branden@debian.org | have that comment in there.
http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Lars Wirzenius
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