Re: Some proposals
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>>>>> In article <[🔎] Pine.LNX.4.53.0302271500480.12186@samadhi.braincells.com>, "Jaldhar H. Vyas" <jaldhar@debian.org> writes:
> On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> Really? How does one get to be a member of the Core?
> A bureaucratic detail which is not important this early in the
> discussion.
Oh, I must disagree. I am intrigued. A real core goup, and I'm
not even aware of selection criteria!
>> Who are they?
> Anyone who has been around Debian for a while knows there are a few
> people who do a disproportionate amount of the infrastructure work
> (TINC.) And we have a good idea in our minds who we would trust to
> do say a glibc NMU and who we wouldn't let within 10 miles of GNU
> hello. When and if the time comes we can have more formal
> criteria.
And must we be mysterious? I am not sure I know who these
people are (I mean, I am sure Guy Maor and Culus have been, well,
semi dormant, for a bit now).
>> Where do they meet?
>>
> Where do important Debian decisions get discussed now? Here, on
> IRC, private email etc. Not important as long as communication is
> going on.
Actually, I would have thought important _Debian_ decisions
happen out in the open in these mailing lists, but since I haven't
noticed this shadowy powers that be behind the scenes that merely toy
with the resu of us unsuspecting souls, You must know somehing I do
not.
Are you reluctant to break the Omerta, then?
>> > Proposal: Stop releasing altogether
>>
>> Not a happy thought for the people who run stable on mission
>> critical systems.
>>
> If I were running anything mission-critical I would make damn sure
> I tested it myself first regardless of what the vendor claimed.
> Whether that vendor is Debian Microsoft or Sun doesn't matter.
I see. People serious about an OS must needs look elsewhere
than Debian? Do it themselves, while we chase after bright new
markets of those unable to fathom non GUI interfaces, and people who
lust after fresh CVS commits?
> Does a win for one necessarily imply a loss for the other. I don't
> want the people who run servers be shortchanged as I'm one of them.
> But can't others be acommodated? We should at least try if the
> rhetoric about a universal operating system means anything.
Well, as soom as people who actually do the work feel like
doing so, those others shall be supported.
Does not scratch my particular itch, but that's just me.
manoj
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