On Thursday 17 March 2005 07:52, Anthony Towns wrote: [...] > What happens if people still aren't happy after you've followed the > guidelines? I mean, in this case, Steve did his best to follow > established procedure for things like this, yet there's still a > many-hundred message flamewar about it. [...] > That's the cost; on the benefits side, you've got YA random flamewar on > -devel, where no one's even game to suggest anything so controversial as > dropping architectures from stable. > > Or, at least, that's how it strikes me.
Am I too callous? Except for a few outliers (Blache and Juergensmann come to my mind as well as several others who only needed some time and more explanations) I felt that the discussion first hung on the points that weren't entirely clear(proposal vs decision, REGULAR vs WIDESPREAD, sarge vs etch) and later developed into interesting sub-threads (e.g. with Sven Luther about how to track testing as IRREGULAR arch) which are now trying to reach solutions for the problems. But then I am also not on the receiving end so I might underestimate the (social) impact of this discussion on the proposers. See also my mail at http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/03/msg01978.html Regards, David -- - hallo... wie gehts heute? - *hust* gut *rotz* *keuch* - gott sei dank kommunizieren wir �ber ein septisches medium ;) -- Matthias Leeb, Uni f. angewandte Kunst, 2005-02-15
