| David Nusinow 2005-03-15, 6:00 pm |
| On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 06:45:48PM +0000, Henning Makholm wrote:
> Scripsit David Nusinow <david_nusinow@verizon.net>
>
> Meaning that they are kicked out and told to start their own project
> where they can take matters in their own hands. Just what they've
> always wanted to do, I am sure.
It's not ideal, but the fact remains that the people carrying the load for
getting the release out aren't capable of dealing with it any more. The current
situation is *broken*. This is an attempt to fix it.
>
> Which part of "unstable-only" does one of us fail to understand?
This is not set in stone. Unstable-only is simply what the current team is
willing to set up and support themselves. Nowhere in the email does it preclude
the ports from setting up something to manage themselves.
>
> And you still claim that having this solution (non-solution if you ask
> me) forced on an architecture from above constitutes "flexibility to
> take matters in their own hands"???
Yes. All the tools are there to do exactly what they want to do, if they so
choose.
>
> However, they have now made it their job to tell the ports that they
> *must not* move alongside the rest of Debian, whether or not the
> portes want to or not.
It's the decision of those doing the work. It's just just setting up and
running buildd's that's the problem. In fact, it's striking that this has been
the focus of most "DROP TEH PORTS!" discussions over the past few years, and
yet this really isn't the issue that the proposal is meant to solve. Those
doing the work of managing the release, managing d-i, and managing our backend
all say that this isn't working. XXXXX all you want, but the problems have to
be solved and the current load placed on the porters isn't solving it.
>
> Which part of "unstable-only" does one of us fail to understand?
Which part of "proposal" does one of us fail to understand?
>
> If you think a snapshot makes a distribution stable, then why do we
> have testing and freezes for the main architectures at all?
A snapshot doesn't make a distribution stable. A snapshot (or "freeze" if you'd
rather) followed by a stabilization period makes a distribution stable. Not to
mention the support phase, which is an also an issue.
>
> ... which it is not allowed to according to the Vancouver plan.
Got a quote for this? Everything I've read and heard from those involved says
differently.
>
> Why do the RM's think it is their job to *prevent* the lesser ports
> from releasing?
They're not preventing them from doing any such thing.
>
> WAR IS PEACE
> FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
> IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
Fine. If you want to troll, go ahead, but you still haven't fixed the problems.
- David Nusinow
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