Ian Jackson Resigns from Debian Technical Committee

Re:Ian Jackson Resigns from Debian Technical Committee by jjoonathan on Wednesday November 19, 2014 @10:50AM (#8630639)

Both sides did lots of work to make their solution better and each side had a sizable list of legitimate advantages over the other. The ultimate decision came down to a subjective value judgement about which advantages were more important and inevitably wound up ignoring about half of those honestly held priorities (not to mention the work that went into Upstart). I don't see how it could have happened any other way.

It's sad that people resigned over it but the pain itself seems unavoidable from where I'm sitting.

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Re:Ian Jackson Resigns from Debian Technical Committee by Shish2k on Wednesday November 19, 2014 @11:39AM (#8630983)

> the pain itself seems unavoidable from where I'm sitting.

If there's enough time and energy in the community to be throwing death threats around, surely there is enough energy to maintain debian/systemd and debian/upstart as separate distros, both of which live happily ever after, sharing the 99.999% of code and infrastructure that they have in common? Then if one side really IS technically superior, people will naturally end up moving to that one and the other will die a gentle natural death, no personal attacks and resignations needed.

(For example, see what happened when Canonical wanted Debian to be more apple-like -- they didn't send death threats to Debian developers, they just did the work that they wanted to see done, and now both projects are a great success)

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Re:Ian Jackson Resigns from Debian Technical Committee by digi_owl on Wednesday November 19, 2014 @12:28PM (#8631311)

That was the Linux community of old. These days it seems it is the old hats that is required to fork if they want to maintain their tried and true ways rather than risk their systems to a massive switchover.

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