[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joey Hess) wrote on 02.10.98 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> This is from the linux kernel mailing list. I find it pretty completly sums > op my thoughts on all the new constitution and voting and policy voting > stuff that we've been setting up. I haven't been vocal about this, but I > think we've been moving in the wrong direction. OTOH, *I* believe we're moving in the right direction because the past has shown that, for whatever reason, our social dynamics are such that the original model doesn't work for us. Incidentally, I think the reasons are actually obvious once you think about it. With Linux, Linus is the one that keeps the kernel source. He decides about every bit that goes in. Debian, OTOH, doesn't have any comparable position, and in all the time I've been here (since .99something), it never had one. Oh, it may have had one in the very beginning, but if so, it was already abandoned back in the .99something days. To put it a different way ... Linus is the main developer for Linux. That makes him a good benevolent dictator. Debian does not have a main developer; Ian has a political, not a technical, job. Linus *acts* as a dictator. He dictates what goes into the kernel, and what doesn't. Debian has nothing comparable. There is no instance we have to pass to get stuff into the distribution. Indeed. I suspect many developers would leave were there such a choke point. Linux kernel development is almost completely different from Debian distribution development. That's why Ian's job description differs from Linus'. MfG Kai
