Re: jessie release goals
Excerpts from Wouter Verhelst's message of 2013-05-14 03:22:14 -0700:
> On 13-05-13 05:59, Mark Symonds wrote:
> > Can we keep the distribution simple enough for nearly anyone to understand?
>
> No.
>
> The goal of Debian is not to be "simple". While we should document
> things as much as possible so that the interested can learn how things
> work, in no case should we ever avoid doing the technically sound
> because it is "difficult to understand".
>
One could argue the opposite: making things hard to understand is
technically unsound because it compromises the ability of engineers to
understand and change or fix it.
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