Four people decided the fate of debian with systemd. Bad faith likely

2014-03-01 Thread disbandtechctte
FOUR people made a decision that would once have required thousands of votes. FOUR votes overrideds the decision debian took before the tech-ctte dictatorship to standardize on system V init rather than bsd style init scripts The tech-ctte was created to arbitrate and decide disputes between pack

Re: Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-03-01 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi Matthew, On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 11:45:01PM +, Matthew Vernon wrote: > Degraded operation with some init systems is tolerable, so long as > the degradation is no worse than what the Debian project would > consider a tolerable (non-RC) bug even if it were affecting all > users. So t

Re: Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-03-01 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 11:45:01PM +, Matthew Vernon wrote: > Hi, > > I wish to propose the following general resolution, and hereby call > for seconds. I don't think further lengthy discussion of the issues is > likely to be productive, and therefore hope we can bring this swiftly > to a vote