Hi, Miles Fidelman: > >Judging by the last couple of months, the rest appears to number <6 people. > > A lot more than that, by my count. > Then the question is why almost all of these "lot more" people did not second the GR proposal.
> Those who are most impacted are sys admins of servers, and upstream > developers - the two communities most impacted, but that seem to have no say > in the matter. > Correct. So? Debian consists of its members, i.e. people working (in whatever capacity) on Debian itself. _Using_ a distribution does not in itself constitute working on it. Neither does work on an Upstream package. If you want to change that and include users and/or Upstream developers in our constituency more directly, you're free to go ahead and draft/discuss a GR for that. (I might even support it.) But please don't just do this in the context of yet another attempt to express dissatisfaction with the fact that our TC chose systemd: if you do, I do not think you'll achieve anything except more annoyance about the fact that we're discussing this *again*, and further regression to a discussion climate where each&every mention of systemd automatically raises hackles on both "sides". Which will do any number of things, but not improve Debian. And that's, ostensibly, what we're all here for. In any case, users _do_ have a say. They can force their systems to remain on sys5 init, or switch to a different distro if that should also turn out to be unsatisfactory. Likewise, upstream developers can refuse to include unit files or systemd-supporting tidbits (like socket activation) in their source code. Fact is that the vast majority of them don't. There has been no huge outcry among Fedora users about switching to systemd, for example. So, frankly, there doesn't seem to be a need to maufacture one here. I'm not accusing you of doing so, mind you, but sometimes that is what these repeated attempts to warm up Debian's systemd discussion look like. -- -- Matthias Urlichs -- 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/20141013140643.gn3...@smurf.noris.de
