On Dec 30, James Troup wrote: > Chris Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > As for naming names, it's a matter of accountability. Yes, NM is > > messed up. Now we need to make sure NM doesn't get messed up again, > > and to do that we need people in NM we can trust not to stage a > > walkout when their perception of the project (as being overloaded > > with deadweight developers who cultivate pages of bug reports on > > their packages) is woefully at odds with reality. > > I didn't "stage a walkout"; I quit. I've had nothing to do with > new-maintainer since then. I fail to see how that's "improper > behaviour" which "screwed Debian over".
I was under the impression that Joey, not you, was the prime mover. My apologies. > As to your claim that my views are "woefully at odds with reality", > perhaps you'd like to explain to me how I removed 35+ nominal > "developers" (from the keyring) without even trying, not to mention a > single one of them turning up to object? I'd also be prepared to bet > silly amounts of money, that someone who took the time, could go > through and find another 100 without significant effort? No argument there. I never claimed that all developers are perfect; however, we can't argue just because X and Y developers did such-and-such that X' and Y' (new developers) will be similar deadweight. I suspect the effect of new developers is more positive than that of the burned out ones you found. > Perhaps people should look at all unjustifiable abuse people who do > stuff for Debian receive (wahey, Ben C anyone?)? And consider the > implications of it... > > Oh, by the way, Chris, whatever happened to you taking over the m68k > webpages? As you promised to do n months ago? Got bogged down in lots of RL projects in the meantime, not to mention cannibalizing the SCSI drives off my A4000 since I could never get it to burn CDs right (I think the bandwidth just isn't there). After I get back to town and get the paper I have to finish for class (that got put off while I recuperated from a kidney stone) finished, and make sure my boot-floppies contributions aren't breaking anything too horribly, and get the m68k FAQ into the FAQ Wizard, I'll track down whoever I need to beg for access. Chris -- ============================================================================= | Chris Lawrence | Visit my home page! | | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.lordsutch.com/chris/ | | | | | Open Directory Editor | Join the party that opposed the CDA | | http://dmoz.org/ | http://www.lp.org/ | =============================================================================