On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 07:08:52PM +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > If you actively take on some responsibility and then fail to actually > fulfill that responsibility it and/or fail to tell others that somebody > else needs to do the job, that _is_ to "actively work against these rules > and decisions" in my book. > > YMMV, and all that. My position is, though, that this is the way it works > in many real-world communities also, and quite frankly I fail to see why > it shouldn't work that way in Debian.
YMMV indeed. The key issue here is that different people have different takes at different times on "actually fullfilling that responsibility". For example, if a person's efforts would be considered adequate at the time, and only in retrospect considered inadequate, what then? -- Raul