On 23.06.24 04:45, Russ Allbery wrote:
Blocking people's work beause it's actively dangerous, sure, sometimes we have to do that and it sucks but it may make sense. But blocking people's work because it didn't solve a larger problem than they wanted to solve, or cared more about backward compatibility than one might wish, or changed a security model in a way that's a little better in places and a little worse than others...
… or because it's perceived as the first step on a journey that eventually would obsoletize a lot of existing code, structure, governance and/or whatever-else they've spent a heap of time and energy on …
Sunk Cost Fallacy, in other words.I'm not saying that that's even part of the reason behind the current disagreement *but* I've seen it happening too often, in non-Debian context for the most part, and thus mayyyybe the people involved might want to take a hard look at themselves and their motives anyway …?
that just feels wrong to me. Rude. Dismissive. And self-defeating for Debian as a whole.
100% agree. Though again: that *feels* rude and dismissive. I'm *not* ascribing *intent* to be rude or dismissive to anybody here, and I'm sure Russ isn't either.
-- -- regards -- -- Matthias Urlichs
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