Quoth Anthony Towns on 26 Oct, 1999: > > Quoth Anthony Towns on 25 Oct, 1999: > (Saith?)
Hrm. Perhaps. > Without a prototype, we shouldn't be voting. Throwing out ideas, > is fine, we've alreay done a lot of that, even before Lalo said > anything. Personally, I was finally getting around to trying to make > a prototype. True, however: I have just volunteered to help you with your code, which probably wouldn't have happened unless this discussion came up. And we've had some, imo, good discussion about a better way to implement this. Granted, this may not be the right forum, but I think its had a measurably better result than yet another debate about "Debian is so old" on -devel. > > maintainer, but it strikes me that if we follow this line of thinking, there > > is no need for any directing body. > > Which is a good thing. Well, I'll agree with you there, but I wasn't going to get into my grand schema of political thought in my original post. :) > All this `I've got a proposal, let's vote on it' stuff isn't quite right. [ ... debconf snipped ... ] > See http://www.debian.org/~ajt/ for the last version of `look, I made a > proposal! Now all the hard work's done, let's just do it'. It didn't work > either. Alright. I'll bow to experience here; ss I said, I'm just a wet-behind-the-ears newbie eager to change the world. There still should be a forum for discussing these kinds of things before hand without degrading into the flamewars that get going on -devel. Not sure what the right answer is.. if something like this exists, please point it out to me. Maybe just dealing with the SNR on -dev. *shrug* Anyway, count me on your side here. I've mailed you privately about your code, and I'm willing to work on it, so I have *something* productive to do while waiting (and waiting... and waiting...) for something to happen with the status of new-maintainers. I see nothing wrong with calling for discussion at the same time, though. :) -- Robert C. Jones | rjones-at-devzero-dot-org | http://www.devzero.org Linux junkie | professional sysadmin | raving lunatic Please use PGP: http://www.devzero.org/public.asc
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