Sam Hartman writes ("Time for compassion and the Init GR"):
> [stuff]Thanks for putting all of that into words. The future looks scary for Debian as a community, but for all of us, even if we lose, this result should have some positive aspects. If the vote provides a definitive conclusion, we can hopefully move on from fighting over this issue. Afterwards, the majority will have an opportunity to demonstrate to the minority that the minority, the minority's ideas about software, and that software itself, are still welcome - even those ideas are a minority view within the project. > What actions could other members of the project take to turn some of > those feelings around without compromising their beliefs, changing their > mind, or giving up on the values that are important to them? [...] Personally, I promise to refrain from posting (as the case may be) bitter or triumphant messages. If I need to commiserate or celebrate with like-minded contributors, I'll do that outside of public channels. Together, I would like us all (majority and minority) to try to help improve the mutual compatibility of competing technologies. IMO this is critical. If we do this well we can hopefully avoid the more frightening possible concrete outcomes, such as certain software being thrown out of the archive. If we do this work collectively and in good faith, we may be able to minimise the negative social outcomes. Personally I am trying to help improve our collaboration tools and workflows, to make it easier for different people with divergent views to collaborate. Some of the debate has framed the dispute as an argument about who will do some compatibility engineering. Insofar as that's the case, I hope that the majority will be magnanimous in victory, and will think it worth putting in some programming effort to try to help show the losers that they're still welcome. Programming is, after all, much more fun than fighting. Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/21595.36886.724024.723...@chiark.greenend.org.uk
