Re: Question to all candidates: DPL's role in important package maintenance
Kumar Appaiah <a.kumar@alumni.iitm.ac.in> writes:
> This totally makes sense, but when it gets to the point where personal
> disagreements and their resolution seem to stifle a significant part of
> the community at large, this also results in disillusion.
Oh, yeah, absolutely. That's one of the reasons why I encouraged people
on debian-devel to take this to the TC.
The heart of the problem for me is that this situation has dragged on for
an exceptionally long time. I remember seeing overflow of the same basic
underlying problem in arguments over pycentral and pysupport on
debian-devel quite some time ago. I think the main failing of how we've
handled this as a project is that we've let it drag on and fester for
probably at least a year longer than we should have.
> There may be no "this is the right solution" for this whole problem. But
> I just wanted to know what the candidates thought they should be doing,
> if anything at all, in order to help fix the situation with as few
> bruises (ego or otherwise) as possible.
Yeah, I think it's a great question.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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