Hi Andreas, On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 10:41:29PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > 2007/11/19, Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 11:16:59PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > > > I completely disagree that the personal preference of a programming > > > language should dictate the technical means we should choose. I'm > > > really happy that James does not prefer say PL/I and we would be forced > > > to clone an existing software in this or any other language.
> > Well, I'm really happy that you can't write something in PL/I and force > > me to use it to do my work, too. It goes both ways. > Wrong. We are talking not about _you_ or a single person, but a group > that should use and continue development. I see no reason why this > group should adopt to the programming habits of a single person. It > sounds like we are to much used to the idea that there is a chair that > is occupied by a single person. If there are existing tools that might > solve a problem we should not ask the person that is sitting on a > specific chair whether he likes the programming language the tool > is written in. If the wool works and we are perfectly able to form a > group that has one or two members that are competent in this > programming language it is perfectly the way we should go. Your message has inspired me. I'm sending this email to let you know that, since I see an open bug on the fortunes-de package, it's my conclusion that you need more help maintaining it, so Adam Conrad and I are working on an updated version that we will upload when it's ready. BTW, the packaging will be redone using "tada", a reimplementation of yada in tcl which already solves this particular bug. I don't imagine you'll have any problems with this choice since it's a perfectly good tool, but even if you do you're only a single person and there are two of us, so we're going to do it anyway, so your choices are to use it as a comaintainer or to step down and let us do what we want without you. HTH, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
