Re: communication structures crumbled
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 06:16:39AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> To us debian users, the most notable thing during this break in or
> whatever episode, is how the communication structures crumbled.
>
> debian-announce had one message on the 21st, five days ago, saying for
> more information, see www.debian.org.
>
> Nothing special there, so I checked http://www.debian.org/security/,
> same problem.
>
> With the mailing lists affected, what would average user me do to
> learn the latest on the situation, google around? Googleing around
> just lead me to some stale discussion on the mailing lists before they
> got turned off.
>
> At least some latest news could have been posted to the main website.
I bet there's been plenty of discussion amongs the devs themselves on
IRC and various back-channels.
This whole experience has pointed out just what amateur status the
Debian project is at.
Of course, the devs would say: "So what?" and they'd be right.
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