Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Sat, 28 Jul 2007, Andreas Barth wrote: >> * Raphael Hertzog ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [070728 14:57]: >>> On Sat, 28 Jul 2007, Andreas Barth wrote:
>> However, in the DM case, you didn't speak first with the people knowing >> about the issues, but tried a rewrite from scratch. > > Historically, the project was only a project of an ftpmaster (Anthony). > Once he wanted to deploy it, there has been some internal objections > from another ftpmaster. > > Since ftpmasters couldn't take a decision alone, Anthony decided to ask > the project approval with this GR. > > Anthony publically spoke of his project at several points in time and all > the people involved in NM sure had noticed the discussions on > debian-project. I would have like some more participation from them > but the few messages I've seen involve skepticism and not a willingness to > integrate the good stuff in NM. Which could very well indicate that they don't really like to be passed. The proposal looks much more a fork than the non official buildds do... > There has been at least two alternative GR proposals but none got > seconded, and the NM people could have drafted an alternative proposal > to ask the project to implement something more sensible in their opinion. > > None of this happened, you can't blame Anthony for that. Why not, he didn't ask for any reaction from FD, NM or DAM before proposing, so I very much blame him for not having a good proposal in the vote... > I'm sorry if you feel that the current vote is sub-optimal, but you should > have gotten involved earlier. In the mean time, this vote involves only > acceptance of the 'principle', the real implementation can evolve and > possibly get integrated into NM (exactly like sponsorship got integrated > in NM after sponsorship got created). If it's only about the principle, why is the proposal concrete about so much details? Sorry, but that doesn't sound at all *only* about the principle... The option that looks best to me to vote for is indeed further discussion... Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]