Nate Bargmann <n...@n0nb.us> writes: > * On 2014 21 Sep 15:10 -0500, lee wrote: >> Mike McGinn <mikemcg...@mcginnweb.net> writes: >> >> > As in any sane system of governance for this type of organization, the >> > ones doing the work get to make the decisions. >> >> Then please modify Debians' social contract where it says that the users >> are the priority. > > I fear that down that path lies madness. Which group of users takes > precedence? Is it those who configure and maintain servers, those who > want to use Debian as a desktop, those interested in using Debian as the > basis for embedded systems, some other group?
Wouldn't that be all the more reason to modify the social contract? ;) > In these discussions I see these are competing interests which leads > me to think that the divisions are such that these interests may > become mutually exclusive to the point that Debian sub projects > catering to each group will emerge. Already some exist and they may > gain a larger user base. I think that Debian is still doing a really good job to accomodate a great variety of users/use cases. It does so by giving them choices. I might even go so far as to say that after about 20 years of using Debian, choices, versatility and quality are expectations I have, and that other distributions I have more or less experience with are unable to come close. Unfortunately, Debian is on the way of not keeping up with it's standards anymore. As to sub-projects for different applications: I wouldn't want to have to switch to another distribution just because I happen to have an (unforeseen) use case which isn't covered. That really isn't feasible. I also don't want to have to use a multitude of distributions to cover all kinds of use cases I might have. That isn't feasible, either. It would lead to get locked in one way or another, and that's something which is simply not affordable. If you have a very specific use case or environment which never changes, you are also locked in. -- Knowledge is volatile and fluid. Software is power. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87y4ta3pby....@yun.yagibdah.de
