The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> writes: ... >> It is very tiresome that all this politicking seems likely to have >> knock-on effects on our normal technical processes long after the >> issues are settled. > > Arguably, if the politicking is still going on, the issues are in some > important sense still not "settled"; even if/though they are in the > sense that a project decision has been made, that is not the only > possible or necessarily relevant sense of the word. You miss my point. The politicing will eventually end. At that point the poor bastards that have been subjected to the game playing will still be sensitive to the games for some time after that, and may well end up seeing hidden agenda where none exist. That's going to make it just a little harder to deal with bugs in that area. Add to that the fact that the current aggravation is already driving people away from maintaining these packages, and from the project, and From being as enthusiastic about other things in Debian, and you get a significant chilling effect, which I'd suggest will continue for years. People don't just put things on hold for a month or two. They find something else to do, get enthusiastic about it, and don't come back. I'm sure some of the vocal minority will be happy that less effort will be available for working on the things that they hate. If so, they're (unsurprisingly) being short-sighted. Removing effort from these areas doesn't mean that they'll disapear in a puff of smoke -- it just means that there will be less effort to spare for accomodating the special requirements they've been screaming about. I suppose that at least that means that there's a learning experience available here -- not that I expect many to understand the lesson. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/ http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg, GERMANY
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