Gergely Nagy <alger...@madhouse-project.org> writes: > Stefano Zacchiroli <z...@debian.org> writes: > >> Some of the longest -devel thread in recent years have been about >> Debian's (default) init system: SysV, SystemD, Upstart, OpenRC, etc. >> Despite folklore, I don't think those thread have been (entirely) >> trollish, they all hint at a concrete problem: > > (For the record, it's systemd, not SystemD. Sorry!) > >> How do we make an inherently archive-wide technical decision when >> multiple, possibly equally valid solutions do exist? > > What I believe to be a solution in cases like this, is to sit down with > the stakeholders (preferably in person; a conference or DebConf would be > a perfect opportunity for this): maintainers of said systems, porters > (primarily kFreeBSD & Hurd folk), the security & release teams, and if > possible, upstream developers of the individual init systems too. I'd do > this behind closed doors, initially, because the number of arguments and > the level of noise needs to be controlled, and we've seen how well that > works on a public mailing list.
Just to clarify: the intent here is not to lock people up until one emerges, that would be useless and counter productive. I genuinely believe that with the right people having a civil discussion can get results out the door in a reasonable timeframe. They just need some careful herding, is all. And face to face, that can be done - over the internet, nope. -- |8] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87r4jb9ez8....@galadriel.madhouse-project.org
