Re: -= PROPOSAL =- Release sarge with amd64
On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 22:48:28 +0100, Frank Pennycook <frank@pennycook.net> said:
> On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 22:07, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> * James Troup:
>>
>> > If anyone thinks that trying to decide technical issues through
>> > voting is a good idea, I pity them.
>>
> Surely it is not so much a technical issue as a policy issue? Since
> different opinions are being expressed, then in a democracy it would
> seem valid to decide it by voting.
Debian, thank god, is not a democracy. We do not decide on
issues based on popularity (else we'd be distributing windows
shareware). We make decisions based on technical merits, and
principles we have agreed on (the sc).
Decisions, for the most part, are taken by those who do the
work (in flex, and fvwm, I have made decisions that are fairly
unpopular with the user base, but, in my opinion, the correct
ones). A developer has control over his or her package. The NM team
decides to accept (or not) applicants -- but not through GR's. The
DPL decides who should get funded for debconf -- in consultation
with other people, but not via a vote.
Yes, we occasionally vote on a few things. But a democracy we
are not.
manoj
--
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