Re: Overriding vs Amending vs Position statement
On Sat, May 02 2009, sven@powerlinux.fr wrote:
> On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 05:26:37PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 01 May 2009, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> > On Fri, May 01 2009, Don Armstrong wrote:
>> > > Only as binding as we as a group consider them to be.
>> >
>> > Hmm. Certainly puts the social contract in a new light, though.
>>
>> It really shouldn't; as a group we decide whether we're going to
>> uphold the social contract. There's no way to force the group to
>> uphold it. [Given the anguish with which we struggle on -project and
>> -vote to figure out what the SC says, it's seems clear that large
>> numbers of us feel that we should be upholding the SC.]
>
> BTW, notice that when we joined debian, we declared that we would adhere
> to the social contract and uphold it, or something such.
Apparently, we all agreed with out fingers crossed behind out
backs, since the SC seems to mean different things to different people.
Reminds me of the tory fro the MahaBharata:
Loudly, "Aswasthama's dead." (Aside, sotto voce: "Aswasthama the
elephant". Perhaps this too will cost us a trip through purgatory,
like it did Yudhishtar.
manoj
P.S.
Without common cause, even words written in one language can seem like
Babel. We apparently no longer have common cause.
--
Neither spread the germs of gossip nor encourage others to do so.
Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/~srivasta/>
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