Re: Debian systemd survey
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 3:30 PM, Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> wrote:
> Martin Wuertele <maxx@debian.org> writes:
>
>> Seems like you haven't realised yet: only if a maintainer makes
>> controversal decisions and several others disagree such a case comes
>> before the CTTE.
>
> Having decisions appealed to the CTTE is not a punishment. It just
> indicates that a decision is controversial and the project was unable to
> reach a consensus. It's not always possible (and indeed not always wise)
> to avoid controversial decisions.
>
>> Having choices ending up twice within relatively short time before the
>> CTTE should give the maintainer a hint.
>
> It is, for example, probably a hint that the maintainer is working on
> something important that a lot of people care deeply about and therefore
> have strong opinions about.
Well said.
-mz
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