On Wednesday 21 June 2006 20:50, you wrote: > That is where I have a spot of confusion. No one seems to deny the fact > that Sven plays a critical role in producing the PPC port of the > installer. It frames his antics in a different light if his > contributions have been minimal. To be honest I don't see the problem. How does saying Sven is not critical to the project imply that his contributions have been minimal? Sven has made very valuable and big contributions to d-i. Losing him will hurt development, mainly for powerpc, for a while. However, I don't understand the jump you seem to be making from there to the assumption that that automatically makes him irreplaceable. > I suppose it comes down to what a "temporary reduction in support" > looks like. Ideally this staffing change should produce improved > performance. Ideally yes. And looking at d-i as a whole I expect it will. However, that does not necessarily mean that all subareas in the project will improve. > Could you outline the improvements you expect to achieve > through Sven's elimination and the timeframe they might arrive in? No. I'm not willing to speculate on that, nor could I quantify it. The main improvement will be in the happiness and thus motivation and hopefully productivity of key members of the project, including myself.
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