Hey Joey, On Sun, Nov 09, 2014 at 06:12:13PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Please take that message with a pound of salt. I was upset when I wrote > it, it's probably not accurate, and I've left[1] for reasons that are > much more broadly structural, and are certianly not the fault of the > technical committee, or indeed of any one person.
I wonder if you could describe what you think made Debian of '96 awesome? I miss reading inspiring manifestos of how things are meant to work in a hypothetical perfect world that makes everyone happy. (For me, I'd say what was cool about Debian back in that day was it was "an anarchic collaboration that's doing cool, useful things with software". When I think about it, I usually conclude that Debian still wins because everything else interesting seems way more structured (ie, either corporate or benevolent dictator), but maybe if I like "anarchic" then the collaboration should be more ad-hoc anyway, and existing structures aren't relevant...) > [1] Almost. Still need to orphan git-annex, git-repair, and github-backup. > #768516: (O: etckeeper -- store /etc in git, mercurial, bzr or darcs) Planning on staying involved with those as upstream? FWIW, you might want to consider retaining your DDship despite orphaning everything, dropping any roles, unsubscribing from any mailing lists, seceding from the constitution, etc. There's not much obligation in keeping the account, and if you find yourself using some package that needs a bug fix, being able to do an NMU is handy (presuming you're not switching to a different distro, anyway). At least, I haven't had anyone begrudge me keeping my account while not doing anything much. (Also, can we contact your ego or superego directly via email too?) Cheers, aj -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141110140124.ga9...@master.debian.org
