This week in "As the Technical Committee Turns"

Posted Jan 30, 2014 20:47 UTC (Thu) by anselm (subscriber, #2796)
In reply to: This week in "As the Technical Committee Turns" by HelloWorld
Parent article: This week in "As the Technical Committee Turns"

[…] it depends on the goals of the users and the project's developers, and those are hard to determine.

Which raises the question of why one would ask the technical committee to make the decision in the first place. The tech-ctte's job is to arbitrate technical disagreements between developers; it isn't the tech-ctte's job to gauge »users' and developers' goals« in order to prescribe project policy.

Since we're very probably going to have a GR anyway, we can only hope that the Debian developers will at least look at the tech-ctte's deliberations before voting. This should acquaint them not only with, e.g., Russ Allbery's very detailed write-up explaining why, based on his own unprejudiced comparison, he prefers systemd to Upstart, but also with the discussion tactics of the Canonical camp.