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Re: 1. RFD: Reorganization of the Debian Project

Daniel Quinlan wrote:
> 
> Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@megabaud.fi> writes:
> 
> > If Debian were a corporation, or an organization headed by a "Board
> > of directors", a "Management Comitee", the first argument would have
> > won, but Debian is an amalgam[2], a collection of developers and the
> > security argument took the precedence.
> 
> I respectfully disagree.  Most people, especially long-time Linux
> developers who would presumably be on such a board, involved in the
> discussion leaned towards using XFree86 3.2.
> 

I don't see any disagreement here, except in what a BoD could think
(silly argument, isn't it?). In my experience (which is not so wide as
my conceit seems suggesting) such a beast is inclined to consider
commercial issues more important that technical ones (it was normal for
me to receive orders from my superiors on how to lie and hide technical
aspects to customers); they also consider the counterpart being the
person who pays, not the one who uses the product. 

If we start such a Board, and also we start to make and sell CDs, I fear
that time will come when some argument coming from such trade will be
stronger that any technical issue.


> I was literally shocked that Brian chose the course of action he did.

I also didn't like what was happening, but I can quite understand his
point. He was put in the position of a dealer who has promised something
to his customers, and he was obviously trying to keep those promises.

What I am trying to say is that if we stop to make such promises, we
will never come back into such situations.

And a way to stop to release quarterly is to release daily or weekly, or
better, keeping continously stable "state-of-the-art".

We should leave dealers do their job and take their responsibilities.

Fabrizio
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