Chris Bannister wrote:
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 07:59:24AM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: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.Don't confuse "wants" with "needs". This has been raised before. You should post on debian-project, and get the answer from the 'horses' mouth.
Somehow - stable system, minimal impact of an upgrade, backward compatibility are more than "wants."
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.Are you referring to DD's? I believe Matthias was.
Well... "more than that, by my count" seems to apply to debian-devel as well. I kind of think it's a matter of:
" * are disillusioned about it all and decided to stand aside"And, as a couple of folks have now pointed out, a lot of developers did not know about the initial vote proposal.
Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra