On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 11:44:57AM +0100, Stephan Hermann wrote: > On Sunday 08 January 2006 10:39, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 07:49:33PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > > On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 09:02:09AM +0100, Stephan Hermann wrote: > > > > On Sunday 08 January 2006 07:27, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 03:19:42PM -0500, Frans Jessop wrote: > > > > > > Ubuntu's launchpad is amazing. Do you think it would be helpful if > > > > > > all DD's worked through it on their projects? Wouldn't that keep > > > > > > things more organized and efficient? Or perhaps Debian could build > > > > > > its own version of launchpad which is better. Again, I think it > > > > > > would do a good job keeping everything organized an efficient. > > > > > > > > > > The day when working on Debian requires the use of a web interface > > > > > will be the day that I hunt down and painfully kill the person > > > > > responsible for doing it. > > > > > > > > Luckily that the bts of Launchpad has a mailinterface..which is quite > > > > nice. So some other parts will have mailinterfaces as well, and some > > > > other goodies where someone can attach some nice cli tools. > > > > > > Which nobody except the Blessed Few (being those who have signed the NDA > > > allowing them access to the Launchpad code) can modify or enhance. > > > > And even then have uncertain chances of getting it deployed into a > > place where it's useful, and goodness knows how practical it would be > > to do this anyway - the backend limitations could be anything. > > Sure, but this applies to any software, actually the best example is the > kernel.
No it doesn't. I can change the kernel and eliminate any backend limitations that offend me. I cannot do so with some external web service. I can apply any changes I want to the kernel. I cannot apply any changes to some web service, I can only beg the owners to do it if they feel like it. These problems are the very ones which free software *solves*. They're a big part of the reason why most of us are here. > Therefore, a lot of people never learned the advantages of cli, and more > people don't want to learn them. Why? I don't know, and it doesn't matter. > But, even those people we have to reach with an easy to use interface, and if > this means: webapplications, so be it. It doesn't mean, that I or you have to > use it The point which you are arguing in favour of is that I be forced to use it. Otherwise you don't appear to *have* a point, since that's what we're talking about. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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