On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 02:35:59PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 07:45:53PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > I find it to be more like fishing for consensus, by trying as many > > possibilities as possible (hence "buckshot"). It really could have > > been better refined (if nothing else, the combinations of options > > which are *not* present indicates that the proposals weren't very > > carefully planned out). > > > > I can see a whole range of ways in which options 1-3 could have been > > better written. I'm not even sure where to start with 5. If any of > > these win then we'll probably end up in a spiralling sequence of votes > > for the rest of the year, gradually working out bugs in them. Of > > these, option 3 is the one which will probably result in the *least* > > further edits. > > > > The reason why we got into this state is because "releasing sarge" > > appears to be the sole priority - no matter how or what is released, > > it *must* be released soon, at the expense of all else. > > Yes, some developers think that, as is their right. Would you please > allow others to have opinions that differ from your own? Ah, so suddenly you're not allowed to discuss issues in case you cause anybody to change their mind. That really is what Manoj has been complaining about. That's just so totally American. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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