On 13461 March 1977, Guillem Jover wrote: > I think that forcing a decision through the TC at this time was very > premature and inappropriate Quite the contrary, it was the right thing to do. This issue will not get any easier or more clearcut the longer we let it wait and see if maybe the maintainers will get to a consensus. They won't, this much has been clear from the beginning, the systems are simply way too different for that to happen. So it was the right time (or maybe even a bit late) to ask the TC to take this decision. > I feel it's inappropriate for a small group of individuals to forcibly > decide the global direction for the entire project. Such decisions, on > issues that are as much technical as strategic, political or of a > subjective design nature, can have huge implications for what > contributors or other Debian-based projects might have to work on, or > stop working on. I feel that such decisions must belong to the project > at large. Where do they decide the global direction for the project? They have a technical decision to do. Sure it has a wide impact, but global direction is something different than "just" an init thingie. Also, seeing how much involvement we have in votes usually, I am far more happy to have a small group of people invest a lot of time to get to know all the various edges of all the involved systems and making an informed decision based on that, giving us long reasonings WHY they decided the way they did, than having a vote where a few hundred CAN vote, way less than that usually DO vote, and even less really inform themself of WHAT they vote on. Sure, there may be some who go long ways to get all the details, but I could bet their number is SMALL, especially if you look at, eg., how deep TC members like Russ went into the issue. The quality of the decision will be much better with the CTTE. -- bye, Joerg > I. What would you do if a package has no sane default configuration? > (There is *no* default configuration that works on most systems!) The best thing to do would be to add such a default configuration. [... ARGS ...]
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