Hi, If anyone thinks this GR will actually achieve anything positive, they're mistaken.
If anyone thinks that trying to decide technical issues through voting is a good idea, I pity them. If anyone thinks that they can insult people as much as they like[0] and that the people they insult still have some obligation to respond to them, they're entirely mistaken.[1] If anyone thinks "$foo doesn't communicate with $bar" == "$foo doesn't communicate", they're being at best disingenuous. If anyone thinks that abusing debian-devel-announce or GRs is the best (or indeed "only") way to force through their pet issue, they're very much mistaken. If anyone thinks Debian in general is good at communication, they're deluded. I've filed bugs that haven't see any communication in over 4 years. I will not be blackmailed into doing things for people who have public tantrums to try and force stuff through. In fact, it'll very much encourage me to not work on whatever it is they're whining about. (And others have warned that this is the case[2].) If you want to help with getting amd64 into the archive then, please, reign in its more vocal proponents - they're only succeeding in delaying its addition to the archive. -- James - as always speaking only for myself [0] e.g. "every minute spent thinking of this fuckwit makes me lose one month of life" [Josselin Mouette, the GR Proposer on IRC, referring to Ryan Murray.] or "The buildd admins must be incompetent or on crack." [Chris Cheney, the [EMAIL PROTECTED] abuser, in http://people.debian.org/~terpstra/message/20040120.041904.3885b3c4.html] [1] Don't get me wrong - I couldn't care less if/how random people insult me and the fact that several of the folks who keep demanding its inclusion into the archive have been personally abusive to me doesn't in anyway affect amd64's inclusion into the archive. It does however mean that I tend to ignore mail from them and threads started by them. [2] http://people.debian.org/~terpstra/message/20040628.100711.6512a302.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]