Colin Watson writes ("Re: CTTE and Developer Buy-in [Re: Bug#727708: init system other points, and conclusion]"): > On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 01:09:27PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Obviously that would be embarrassing for us and substantially damage > > our credibility. But I don't think it's at all likely. Do you ? > > I don't know. That's part of what I'd like to find out. :-) My concern > is not so much embarrassment as wasting the project's time and > democratic effort unnecessarily.
I think holding some kind of straw poll would waste more of the project's time, than simply making a decision and seeing if anyone wants to try for a GR. Such a straw poll would effectively be requesting that currently-ignorant developers (and I might no slight here - I just mean people who haven't spent the time to investigate the matter) should spend enough time to come to a halfway-informed opinion. It would also open the project as a whole to campaigning by both camps - undoing the beneficial effect of the TC's involvement that debian-devel has mostly been free of init system flamewars. In practice I would hope that the potential sponsors of an overruling GR would run an informal poll of their own, to guess how many supporters they have and assess whether they have a reasonable chance of success. Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-ctte-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/21189.27126.622543.932...@chiark.greenend.org.uk