Matthias Urlichs wrote:
Hi, lee:I'm sure we could find quite a few supporters for having a GR amongst the users (here).We don't do a GR among our users. We do that among Debian members/maintainers/developers/take-your-pick.
Which does kind of lead back to the question of what's the point of a social contract that says users and their needs are the priority.
Of those, most …
* are perfectly happy with the TC's decision
* can live with it
* are unhappy, but think that to continue discussing this is way worse
than biting the bullet and getting on with actual work
* you do know that we plan to release Jessie sometime this decade,
right?
* are disillusioned about it all and decided to stand aside
Judging by the last couple of months, the rest appears to number <6 people.
A lot more than that, by my count.Also.. it occurs to me that another constituency, that is probably not well represented, are upstream developers.
Those who are most impacted are sys admins of servers, and upstream developers - the two communities most impacted, but that seem to have no say in the matter.
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