Dear Zack, Thanks for the response. On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 04:51:52PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > My question to you is, do you envision a role for the DPL in fixing > > such inadequate maintenance of important packages, or are you of the > > opinion that is it up to the affected Debian "community" to stop > > whining and step up with some action themselves? [snip] > In the specific case you mention, I'm aware that Steve has tried to > mediate at least in the form of offering resources to organize a F2F > meeting with all involved people (as reported in the bug log), but > unfortunately some of the involved parties did not reply to the > offer. All this is TTBOMK, on all sides of the issues. Probing further on this response of yours: The method adopted for resolution of this conflict has, for better or for worse, happened "behind-the-scenes". Now, some in the project feel that this is the best way to avoid a conflagration of sorts, but others feel that this "back channel" approach does not augur well for a project which strives to adopt open procedures. Would you, as DPL, facilitate such negotiations in the open (for instance, on a publicly viewable mailing list), or under wraps? Thanks! Kumar -- "Linux: the operating system with a CLUE... Command Line User Environment". (seen in a posting in comp.software.testing)
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