Sorry, but I disagree completely !!!
I am an occasional user of Debian PPC too, just 3 machines right now .
But I listen to this list for more than 4 years, and the ONLY one who
contribute with usable patches do d-i IS exactly Mr. Sven Luther !!!
Without him there is no such thing called "Debian PPC" !!!!
Fábio Rabelo
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Hi to all,
I am only a casual user of Debian on the PPC and hardly in a position to
judge, to opinionate or to choose. It is easy to choose for the first
one that speaks, but as my mother used to say: "when two are fighting,
two are to blame". Maybe my mother had the kind of simple wisdom that
all involved in this conflict could begin with.
Conflicts of this kind in volunteer driven projects are not uncommon and
this one will most likely not be the last. They stem from the same
desire and urge to deliver the best result possible, which is great. But
when there is no agreement the discussion can be a heated one and in the
end harm the project in which all parties have an emotional stake. This
project is no different.
Simply put, if a conflict can not be resolved peacefully, if no
substantiated blame is available and if all involved threaten the future
perspective of Debian PPC, then I see only one solution for the
community: to remove both parties from the project. It might be painfull
in the short run, but highly beneficial in the long run.
I wish you all a lot of wisdom
Jan Stedehouder
Sven Luther schreef:
Hi, ...
As some of you may have noticed, there is an ugly dispute going on between
some few d-i team members (Frans Pop and Joey Hess mostly, but Geert and
Holger also seem to support them), and which result in a over 6 month old
dispute who is not even near to being resolved, despite numerous and various
attempts to do so on my part. I have documented this issue somewhat on :
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/FransPopAndOthersVs%2eSvenLutherIssue
But despite these numerous attempts on my part to resolve this issue, and the
numerous patches and fixes i have provided to not let the powerpc d-i rot and
become more broken, there seem to be a clear will on the part of Frans Pop to
take the powerpc users hostage in his warfar against me, and there are a
number of patches which are now submitted since a few weeks, and which where
not applied. As an example let's take the following bug :
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=394971
#394971: rootskel: [powerpc64] load the fan control modules.
Which was submited 29 days ago, with a patch and not commited.
Furthemore, when i did myself an upload on sunday, which included the patch
and fixed the bug report, Frans didn't incorporate the change, but reverted it
today.
As thus, in the current conditions, i fear for the support of d-i on powerpc
for the etch release, and thus the quality of the release. I strongly urge you
all to sign the petition to get this issue solved on :
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/FransPopvsSvenLutherIssue/SvenLutherSupport
Since you are all kind of held hostage over this petty dispute, by them
stopping me to do work on d-i for powerpc, and in general wasting too much
time on this matter, time i could spend working generally on the powerpc port.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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