On 11/16/2014 at 05:15 AM, Philip Hands wrote: > Just to clarify, before someone grasps the wrong end of the stick: > > Philip Hands <p...@hands.com> writes: ... >> of course this subject has now become so sensitive on all sides >> that some people will probably assume that I'm reporting such a bug >> because I hate systemd, > > I realise that that makes it sound like I think that systemd (or > related packages' maintainers) are overly sensitive, or some such. > > What I actually meant was that I assume that the next avenue of > attack From the more aggressive systemd-haters will be to submit a > lot of bugs that boil down to something like: Systemd ate my > hamster!
I regretfully acknowledge that this is entirely possible. > One is therefore going to have to be very diligent with bug reports > that could be misinterpreted as simply being "bitter rearguard > actions" in order to make it clear that there is no hidden agenda. I'd just like to note that I would not have interpreted "bitter rearguard action" as referring to the "systemd ate my hamster!" type of bug report. I would, for example, have classified the discussions / arguments in the "systemd-sysv | systemd-shim" bug which appears to have recently been resolved by TC decision as being an example of what I thought was being referred to by the original "bitter rearguard action" reference: fighting over the implementation details in an attempt to maintain as much ground for non-systemd as possible. > It is very tiresome that all this politicking seems likely to have > knock-on effects on our normal technical processes long after the > issues are settled. Arguably, if the politicking is still going on, the issues are in some important sense still not "settled"; even if/though they are in the sense that a project decision has been made, that is not the only possible or necessarily relevant sense of the word. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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