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Re: Summary of the current state of the tag2upload discussion



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.

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-- Matthias Urlichs

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