On 05/15/17 at 11:14am, Eli Schwartz via aur-general wrote: > On 05/15/2017 10:43 AM, NicoHood wrote: > > Because there are people who don't use (much) proprietary software and > > still want to benefit from Arch. We are not only a free distribution but > > I think its a nice addition to have free kernels available. Also another > > kernel maintainer can make the normal kernel testing faster than it is > > now. I appreciate the work on free software and we should give users the > > freedom of choice. > > Not sure I understand this. > > Anyone who chooses to use a libre kernel is presumably doing so because > they believe in a moral argument against the use of proprietary blobs of > any sort. > It can be assumed that such a person doesn't want to use any of the > other proprietary blobs we ship in the repos... however, it is not as > though we somehow care about distinguishing between them, so anyone who > chooses to use our repos would have to do a fair amount of work to > *protect themselves against* the natural behavior of the Arch repos. > > Parabola already perfectly fulfills this role on behalf of its users, > and the only real benefit of shipping our own libre stuff is to give it > the official Arch stamp of approval and thereby permit such individuals > to receive support from the official Arch support Fora. > > > As far as kernels go, I don't see how shipping another kernel and > dividing our current users between 4 kernels instead of three kernels is > supposed to make testing and signoffs of the three we have right now, go > any faster. If anything, we will have some number less eyes on the stock > kernel, ensuring we are less likely to catch errors with its specific > configuration. > One doesn't need to have push access to the package repositories in > order to test the kernel... > > ... > > Obviously you all can do whatever you want, and maybe there are other > reasons to choose to include André Silva among your number. But from > where I am looking in from the sidelines, I simply don't see what > non-Parabola-specific *values* he intends to bring with him to enhance > the Arch Linux experience. > > (From the Wiki) > The minimum requirements to becoming a TU are as follows: > ... > a general idea of the kind of packages you want to maintain > (basically, why do you want to become TU?) > > If the answer to that question is merely "to subsume and obsolete > Parabola", then I suddenly start being confused about the general > direction of the Arch Linux project. > > I feel sure I must be missing something, somewhere, somehow... > > -- > Eli Schwartz >
André, would love to see your response to the questions from Eli and Brtln. -- Jelle van der Waa
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