John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> writes: > Yes, I do accept vocals against systemd, but only if these are actually > valid arguments. Because I want software development to be driven on > technical merits and not on sympathies against or for certain people > neither the stance to reject any modern developments.
Free software is a social activity. The past history of qmail should be informative here (or, for that matter, both gcc and glibc, which had to go through disruptive forks to sort out long-term issues). One of the determiners of the long-term success of a free software project is the social skills of the primary maintainers, regardless of their skill as software designers. I'm on the side of wanting to support a variety of different choices in the archive so that people can experiment and evaluate and choose what works best for them. But to the extent that we have to pick winners and losers (and, to be clear, I think it's premature to do that for init systems), I for one will always advocate taking social considerations into account as well as technical considerations. In the long term, they often matter more than the initial technical design. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87obigdutn....@windlord.stanford.edu
