On Tue, 9 Oct 2007 14:19:43 +0200, Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 02:22:41AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> The problem most often materializes when there are heated opinions, >> but the fundamental problem is when people can't work together with >> mutual respect. If you end up with people who intensely dislike each >> other, the group will have an exceedingly hard time reaching >> consensus on anything. > MJ and Bernhard made good points already, I'll just concentrate on a > few bits that troubled me: I don't agree with these two premises - > that any two elected Debianites would so intensely dislike each other > to cause a deadlock in the rest of the group, or that this deadlock > would spread onto all other issues (other than the one they over which > they originally came in conflict). I do not see any historical > precedent in Debian history to reach that harsh a conclusion. Err. I see an immediate historical precedent, which in fact lead to a recent expulsion. Several mailing lists became poisoned to the level that people left off volunteering. If it happened once, it can happen again ... manoj -- Why don't you fix your little problem... and light this candle? Alan Shepherd, the first man into space, Gemini program Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.debian.org/~srivasta/> 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]