Today's Debian technical committee resignation: Ian Jackson [LWN.net]

Today's Debian technical committee resignation: Ian Jackson

Posted Nov 19, 2014 15:26 UTC (Wed) by emunson (subscriber, #44357)
In reply to: Today's Debian technical committee resignation: Ian Jackson by Zack
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While I didn't/don't agree with Ian, this was an important outcome of the GR.

Ian managed to maintain a pretty level head in the otherwise nasty init debate, but more importantly Ian did great work for Debian. Hopefully he will remain engaged with the community.

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Today's Debian technical committee resignation: Ian Jackson

Posted Nov 19, 2014 18:15 UTC (Wed) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129) [Link] (2 responses)

> Ian managed to maintain a pretty level head in the otherwise nasty init debate
Yeah... right...
https://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2014/02/msg00342.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2014/02/msg00344.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2014/02/msg00359.html

Today's Debian technical committee resignation: Ian Jackson

Posted Nov 19, 2014 18:57 UTC (Wed) by cesarb (subscriber, #6266) [Link] (1 responses)

Yeah, there were moments in this debate in which Ian went nonlinear.

But there were also moments in which he was level-headed. For obvious reasons, these tend to not be as visible.

People are not perfect. We cannot divide people into Incorruptible Pure Pureness and Complete Monster buckets.

We should cherish the good Ian has done, and leave behind any bad he has done. One day, we will all look back to this and say, "how silly have we been!"

Today's Debian technical committee resignation: Ian Jackson

Posted Nov 19, 2014 19:37 UTC (Wed) by Rehdon (guest, #45440) [Link]

+ 1.

Rehdon