On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 02:07:13PM -0800, Adam McKenna wrote: > On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 02:40:43PM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote: > > The kernel has someone with the power to say "Yes, this change goes > > in", and "No, this change must wait". No one in Debian has that power. > > Anytime someone tries to take such a position, there's a lot of whining > > about cabals and dictators and abuse of power. > > It seems like Debian worked better back when there actually *was* a cabal and > people were actually able to get things done without long, protracted > 300-post threads on debian-devel and/or debian-private. I have to imagine > that these threads, especially the NM threads, contributed significantly to > cabal member burnout. You could propose a GR to repeal the Constitution. It might then be the last ballot Debian developers would ever have to cast. -- G. Branden Robinson | Don't use nuclear weapons to Debian GNU/Linux | troubleshoot faults. branden@debian.org | -- US Air Force Instruction 91-111 http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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