Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Bill wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-14-03 at 10:45 -0400, Celejar wrote: > >> What is this all about? I've been following d-u pretty closely > >> recently, and I haven't seen much DT discussion here. > > > > Ideally, bridging the gap. > > > > Not that I've any inflated sense of my own importance, or > > ability to resolve the problem, but perhaps the most important > > thing Anthony Towns can do _before_ the election is to get the > > release process back on track.
I thought it was on track. > > Most of us have been very patient, and have faith that etch will > > happen when it's ready. But, if the strike drags on into the new > > leaders term, then it's harmful. Strike? I've heard of DDs withholding their efforts, but strike? > > The right thing to do is to get back on track now. > > > > DU is perhaps the right place to start such a process: to guage > > Personally, I would prefer not to have a dunk-tank flame war showing up > in d-u, as it's a dev issue, not a user one. ACK. > I'm sure the user community is anxiously awaiting Etch, but the > consensus here is AFAIK, it'll be ready when it's ready and we will > wait. ACK. I don't get the DT kafuffle. It was an experiment attempting to improve $SOMETHING. What's the data say of the results? Experiments are always worth trying, aren't they (assuming willing subjects / participants)? If the DDs hate it, they know what to do. If it had benefits, ditto. Determine what those are, handle it, and move on, yes? [I'm not attempting to minimize the DDs difficulty in handling this issue. I'll readily admit its complexities are beyond me.] -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling Linux Counter #80292 - - http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html Please, don't Cc: me. Spammers! http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling/emails.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
