Re: Being part of a community and behaving

2014-11-14 Thread Josselin Mouette
The Wanderer wande...@fastmail.fm wrote: I find that interesting. I recall being told that, while it is technically possible to compile and use GNOME without systemd - specifically, without libpam-systemd and its backend infrastructure - doing so now loses

Re: Being part of a community and behaving

2014-11-14 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Miles Fidelman: Personally, I think Ian's statement is spot on. [...] The stream of negative reactions is even more revealing of the state to which the community has devolved. Ah. In other words, basically, denying that a conspiracy is going on is in itself a confirmation of the

Re: Being part of a community and behaving

2014-11-14 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 10:01:39AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: The Wanderer wande...@fastmail.fm wrote: I find that interesting. I recall being told that, while it is technically possible to compile and use GNOME without systemd - specifically, without

Re: Being part of a community and behaving

2014-11-14 Thread Miles Fidelman
Matthias Urlichs wrote: Hi, Miles Fidelman: Personally, I think Ian's statement is spot on. [...] The stream of negative reactions is even more revealing of the state to which the community has devolved. Ah. In other words, basically, denying that a conspiracy is going on is in itself a

Re: Being part of a community and behaving

2014-11-14 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Miles Fidelman: arrogance, a couple of developers with an agenda and salaries behind them, I fail to see what's so evil about getting paid for developing free software. And: OF COURSE they have an agenda. Getting systemd deployed as widely as possible means less work for everbody,

Re: Being part of a community and behaving

2014-11-13 Thread Ian Jackson
Russ Allbery writes (Re: Being part of a community and behaving): We waited two years, during which positions hardened, people got angrier and angrier, and there were increasing demands to force the issue. Serious question: how much longer were we realistically going to wait with zero sign

Re: Being part of a community and behaving

2014-11-13 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Ian, On Donnerstag, 13. November 2014, Ian Jackson wrote: The correct reaction to people not adopting your software is to make your software better, not to conduct an aggressive marketing campaign aimed at persuading upstreams to built it in as a dependency, nor to overrun distro mailing

Re: Being part of a community and behaving

2014-11-13 Thread Simon Chopin
Quoting Ian Jackson (2014-11-13 17:53:30) Russ Allbery writes (Re: Being part of a community and behaving): We waited two years, during which positions hardened, people got angrier and angrier, and there were increasing demands to force the issue. Serious question: how much longer were we

Re: Being part of a community and behaving

2014-11-13 Thread Ian Jackson
Simon Chopin writes (Re: Being part of a community and behaving): Could you please keep this whole mess on the mailing lists where it came from? I (and I believe others) have unsubscribed from -devel and -vote because we were fed up with the endless debate around the whole systemd issue

Re: Being part of a community and behaving

2014-11-13 Thread Philip Hands
Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk writes: Russ Allbery writes (Re: Being part of a community and behaving): We waited two years, during which positions hardened, people got angrier and angrier, and there were increasing demands to force the issue. Serious question: how much longer

Re: Being part of a community and behaving

2014-11-13 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 04:53:30PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: The correct reaction to people not adopting your software is to make your software better, not to conduct an aggressive marketing campaign aimed at persuading upstreams to built it in as a dependency, nor to overrun distro mailing

Re: Being part of a community and behaving

2014-11-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk writes: Russ Allbery writes (Re: Being part of a community and behaving): We waited two years, during which positions hardened, people got angrier and angrier, and there were increasing demands to force the issue. Serious question: how much longer

Re: Being part of a community and behaving

2014-11-13 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 05:32:34PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: Could you please keep this whole mess on the mailing lists where it came from? I (and I believe others) have unsubscribed from -devel and -vote because we were fed up with the endless debate around the whole systemd issue. Please

Re: Being part of a community and behaving

2014-11-13 Thread The Wanderer
On 11/13/2014 at 12:29 PM, Olav Vitters wrote: On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 04:53:30PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: The correct reaction to people not adopting your software is to make your software better, not to conduct an aggressive marketing campaign aimed at persuading upstreams to built it in

Re: Being part of a community and behaving

2014-11-13 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Ian Jackson dijo [Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 04:53:30PM +]: The correct reaction to people not adopting your software is to make your software better, not to conduct an aggressive marketing campaign aimed at persuading upstreams to built it in as a dependency, nor to overrun distro mailing lists

Re: Being part of a community and behaving

2014-11-13 Thread Miles Fidelman
Gunnar Wolf wrote: Ian Jackson dijo [Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 04:53:30PM +]: The correct reaction to people not adopting your software is to make your software better, not to conduct an aggressive marketing campaign aimed at persuading upstreams to built it in as a dependency, nor to overrun