Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:
> Russ Allbery writes ("Re: Being part of a community and behaving"):
>> We waited two years, during which positions hardened, people got angrier
>> and angrier, and there were increasing demands to force the issue.
>> Serious question: how much longer were we realistically going to wait with
>> zero sign of forward progress?
>
> The correct reaction to people not adopting your software is to make
> your software better, not to conduct an aggressive marketing campaign
> aimed at persuading upstreams to built it in as a dependency, nor to
> overrun distro mailing lists with advocacy messages.
Has anyone seen the Bursar's dried frog pills?
He seems to be having another of his turns.
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