Le Thursday 18 December 2008 16:37:38 Johannes Wiedersich, vous avez écrit : > Julien BLACHE wrote: > > I'd argue about that "official" thing that people have been using to > > qualify d-d-a. It's an announce list for developers, by > > developers. I'm not sure what's official in there. I'd tend to say > > anything "official" is project communication, that effectively goes to > > debian-announce. > > d-d-a has 5700 subscribers [1] and is archived/mirrored around the > world. Non-developers by far outnumber developers in subscribing that > list. It doesn't really matter, if it's an 'officially endorsed' message > from the project or not, the point is it was an 'announcement' and it > was perceived as inappropriate (not only OT) by many.
I fully disagree. If I say "I eat kittens at breakfast"(*) here or in planet.debian.org, how is it relevant to the project ? Even though it could be read by many and reproduced in a lot of places, the project never said it supports having kitten for breakfast, even though *some* developpers might actually say it. The question is not about what is said but about the scope of the communication. "official" has a meaning which is clear. It is the composition of an official position *and* an official communication channel. Any argument that blurs this distinction will only make the project less reliable and reduce the various opinions of people in the project, which means free speech. I *do* like when people express various points, including one that I do not agree with. And we don't want DDs to have all the same ideas, right ? Romain (*) The true answer to this question remains private :-P -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org