On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 03:17:27PM +0200, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: > >> If you don't like that, don't shoot the messenger, because they > >> might get sick of being shooten at at every occasion; thanks. > > I think an important critic in this thread is the way the message was > > brought: DD's like myself are learning of this decision from a press > > release. Affected teams haven't been asked or even informed beforehand.
> > This is definitely something that the 'messenger' should have considered > > before deciding to take this route to announce the plan, don't you think? > Please try to put yourself in our (the press teams) place: > * In the release teams keynote a major change is announced > * It is clear, that the topic will be picked up by journalists I wonder why this is clear, exactly - I didn't notice journalists in the room during the talk, and I doubt they're watching the DebConf video feed in realtime. Don't you think there was time here to have a developer announcement + discussion first, without worrying about the press covering it before we'd even posted to d-d-a? One of the reasons I heard mentioned here at DebConf for putting out a press release was to give our *users* as much warning as possible that the release cycle would be different, so that they could plan accordingly. I think this was a good reason for doing a press release soon; I don't think it was urgent to have it happen immediately, and I think having it happen this way has had an unfortunate effect on the developer discussion process. (Which is still an important and necessary process, even if some people currently feel the release team is shoving this decision down their throats - if there are problems with the proposed plan, we can only fix those and make the next Debian release as great as possible by discussing them respectfully and working together to solve them.) -- 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 http://www.debian.org/ [email protected] [email protected] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
