These discussions of grand schemes to change the future of Linux development are potentially interesting in the right forum, but this isn't the right forum. The goal of this discussion is to decide what Debian is going to do for jessie, with some discussion of what Debian might do after jessie. There are many possible visions of the future, but right now we have to decide what Debian is going to do in the near term.
It's basically impossible to translate grand schemes for forking large amounts of software, changing major development models, or the like into any sort of practically achievable advice for the Debian project in the timeframe of the next release. Similarly, the concept of init configuration generators has come up in this discussion before, but a working set of generators and universal syntax does not currently exist, and we can't adopt something that doesn't exist. If you all find these ideas interesting, I encourage you to go tackle them! Write code, test code, make the world a better place, and give people more options. I'm sure there are others who would be interested in discussing them with you, and possibly collaborating. But the role of the Technical Committee on these sorts of discussions is reluctant and trailing-edge, not visionary and bleeding-edge. We're a decision-making body of last resort called on to make decisions when the project needs to have a decision and the correct option isn't clear. As a result, we have to deal with the practical, concrete, and currently available. We are neither empowered to, nor in a position to, set grand design strategies for what other developers might work on, only to decide how to integrate the code we have available to us now in places where the right decision is not clear. This bug discussion is already quite long and protracted, and it would be easier for those following it if strategic discussions of how to drive the future of Linux could be moved to other, more appropriate forums where they have a better chance of finding their audience. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
