On Tue, 09 Mar 2004 18:43:21 +0100, Matthias Urlichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Hi, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>>> _If_ I do, however, simply not showing up in an emergency or two
>>> (as opposed to resigning properly) will have a _very_ different
>>> result WRT both to my standing in the community and my ability to
>>> restart when the condition that caused my resignation no longer
>>> applies.
>>
>> I see. I volunteer for a bake sale, and my wife breaks her leg and
>> I do not show up, the church excommunicates me?
> A broken leg is an emergency. A bake sale isn't. I was referring to
> an emergency call _from the fire service_, not from external
> circumstances.
Great, you can indeed distinguish between them.
> (I'll leave the question whether I really was _that_ inscrutable, or
> if Manoj deliberately and/or accidentally misunderstood, up to the
> readers' consideration.)
And I bring to your consideration which one of these analogies
is closer to the situation of maintianing a debian package, which any
developer can NMU as needed: Is it a life and death situation, like
the fireman, or is it closer to signing up for a bake sale, and
allowing real life to take precedence?
manoj
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