]] Ian Jackson > Philip Hands writes ("Re: Replace the TC power to depose maintainers"): > > Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes: > > > I still don't understand why the TC is so crushingly slow to conter > > > maintainer power in Debian. As I say in my other emails, a result of > > > the TC's inaction, maintainer power in Debian is nearly unassailable. > > > > I wonder which column on your tally sheet you will put this outcome. > > I think the maintainer saw the writing on the wall, so I count this as > a successful intervention by the TC. (I hope the new maintainers will > prove me right.) That there wasn't a formal vote is beside the point.
I don't consider this case particularly successful. Regardless of what one thinks of the outcome, the process was subpar and had people sniping at each other. I don't think that's how the process ought to look. > I still (perhaps, even more so) believe we need to have a better way > of dealing with these kind of disputes. That I agree with. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are