On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 01:33:46AM -0400, Travis Crump wrote: > David Nusinow wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 08:04:56PM -0400, Jeremy Hankins wrote: > >> I'm afraid I don't understand the fear here. What would it mean for d-l > >> to become gnome.alioth.debian.org in your example? > > > > Non-developers, no matter how much they love Free Software and Debian, > > don't get to decide on the policies for the Debian project. They have a > > say, but they don't get to make a decision, or make any claims on behalf of > > the project. This applies to debian-legal contributors as well. > > > > - David Nusinow > > > > > > One would think that even developers that haven't been elected/appointed > to certain positions don't get to do these things.
Well, no, that's not actually true. Debian developers get a say in whatever they're responsible for. Whether that whatever is a bunch of packages on which they're listed as Maintainer, or a port they've been maintaining for a few years, or a programming language for which they maintain an extraordinary amount of packages and have been helping out in shaping a policy for, or some appointed position (as in this case) really isn't all that important. If somebody not involved with the m68k port comes and tells me that some decision I made for m68k is all wrong and that I should've done this or that instead, I'll have a good laugh. And go on with doing whatever I was doing. Which, I think, is what the ftp-masters should do to this thread. -- Fun will now commence -- Seven Of Nine, "Ashes to Ashes", stardate 53679.4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
