Hi! Sune Vuorela <nos...@vuorela.dk> writes:
> So, over the last years I have seen a Debian where it among the people > is much more important to avoid to fail than trying to do awesome > stuff. While I subscribe to the 'avoid failure whenever you can' school of thought, I do not wish to hold on to that thought at all costs. We do need to risk it at times, and that may or may not result in falling flat on our face. If we do fail - so what? We'll learn. Care *must* be taken though, that if things are going to fail, let it do so early, when it hurts less. Or better yet, if it looks like it's going to end badly, look back and see what were wrong, and correct the course. We have tons of eyes in the project, if even a fraction of them cares about a particular project, we'll have quite many opinions, viewponts and ideas, we'll see and know where things go wrong. In short, failure will happen, we have to take that into account, but that should not stop us from doing awesome stuff, whatever that awesome stuff would be. > Focussing on not failing is helping ensuring to stay mediocre. And not > doing awesome. While I believe one can do awesome stuff and not stay mediocre even when trying very hard not to fail, that's a rare thing indeed. > So, how can we make debian do awesome stuff? By not being afraid to try new things. For this, we'll likely need the backing of a DPL who feels the same, because that gives a more comfortable background for others aswell. Perhaps someone who's not bound by years-long exposure to a management style that tries to avoid all kinds of failure. We need initiators who are not afraid of bruises. If that includes the DPL, so much the better! There are a couple of ideas and plans in my platform, that I hope fall into the 'do awesome stuff' category. As far as I see, the plan of focusing much more on non-packaging contributors is one of these risky plans. I can easily see it fail. But nevertheless, I believe it *is* worth the risk, because if it succeeds, that's going to be big. -- |8] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87k3pegth9....@galadriel.madhouse-project.org
