Re: Dunk-Tank and the DD strike

On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 07:40 -0800, Bill wrote:
Hi folks,

I know much has already been said, and I certainly am not
interested in starting a flame war, but isn't it time
to move on?

Both sides have made their point and I doubt the experiment
will be repeated in future. But haven't we had enough?

The longer this situation continues the more harm we do
to ourselves and to debian - IMHO.

Reliability is also a people thing. Now it's about whether
WE can be trusted to rule ourselves rationally and in the
best long term interests of the distro.

Should we ask Anthony Towns to call for a vote among the DDs?

Comments?

It was an experiment that failed mildly. It may come back in a different
form, it may just die. There is not a "strike" going on, just a few
disgruntled people airing laundry. Not unlike the issues with Gentoo, or
OpenSUSE or Fedora

Etch being release on April 2, 2007 (tentative per last nights
announcements) is EONs ahead of Sarge's and Woody's release cycles.
It'll only be about 4-5 months late. Consider less than 2 years for
Etch. Sarge was HOW Long? And How long was Woody? I believe you'd have
to go back to Slink to be only 4-5 months late. Or maybe farther back.

Remember, Debian is a mostly Volunteer effort. Deadlines are for
Marketing and Commercial driven things.
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Active Directory in much the same way that the Saturn V is a competitive
product to those dinky little model rockets that kids light off down at
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