Re: jessie release goals
On 16-05-13 21:27, Clint Byrum wrote:
> 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.
There is a very wide gap between making things "hard to understand" and
making things simple enough so that "nearly anyone" can understand it...
I believe that the latter is at least as bad an idea as the former.
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