On Tue, Jun 02, 2020 at 12:44:23AM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Tuesday, June 2, 2020 12:12:21 AM EDT Bdale Garbee wrote: > > Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> writes: > > > It's almost like this discussion about a GR was a premature waste of > > > everyone's time. > > It's also possible that discussion about a possible GR influenced the > > ultimate decision in a useful way. > > [shrug] > Sure, but doing business by threat of GR is a horrible way to run things. > What I would have hoped is that project members would trust the people that > they have (indirectly) delegated the responsibility to run Debconf to to do a > good job and only once there is something that's enough of a problem to > require a project wide decision to change their decision consider a GR. > There's enough to do to make the Debian project go that I don't think we need > to engage in project level micromanagement like this. The fact that the organizing team's response to the pandemic was anything other than a categorical decision not to hold a conference that would put people on planes and increase the overall risk of the community of disease transmission - and was instead in the nature of a public poll to find out whether there was enough *interest* in holding an in-person conference - means they had already lost any confidence I might have had in them in this matter. In this context, the rationale for the decision is as important as the decision itself. I did not trust them to do the right thing because they had already done the wrong thing. A GR under those circumstances looks entirely appropriate to me. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer https://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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