La Salle DebainJaldhar Vyas's Debian GNU/Linux WeblogL'affaire Fucktard- April 18, 2008 Hi, Julien, I agree that Debian is not dying and it was a bad PR move for Lucas to suggest it is, but what makes you think your response is any better from the PR perspective I too have represented Debian at trade shows, LUGs etc. and I&39;ve had to deal with this topic before. My response is not to berate the holders of misinformation (and while I believe you when you say you were only aiming at Lucas, you used the plural so it would be easy for readers to be misled into thinking you meant..http://www.braincells.com/debian/index.cgi/search/item=189 "I Can't Let You In 'cause You're Old as ... For This Club, Not, You Know, For The Earth."- April 18, 2008 Don&39;t worry. I have a pro-death penalty post coming up to realign the cosmic balance.http://www.braincells.com/debian/index.cgi/search/item=188 Grow Up Julien Blache- April 18, 2008 Yeah the "oh noes Debian is dying!!1!!" meme is overwrought and annoying but why did you have to insult people who were pointing out a legitimate bug in Debian structure I&39;m glad that (hopefully) this issue is resolved but the length of time it took to resolve is hardly something to be proud of. We who are sitting smugly inside the club should not look down on those waiting at the velvet rope in the rain.http://www.braincells.com/debian/index.cgi/search/item=187 Bitter New Maintainers Cling to Guns and Religion- April 17, 2008 For the second year in a row, I didn&39;t vote in the DPL election. Not because I have lost interest in Debian affairs but because nothing is really going on that demands my attention. All three of the candidates who ran this year were eminently capable of representing of Debian and its ideals, all three had more or less the same vision for the role of DPL (IMO. See here for platforms,) and all three are, as far as I know, nice people. Organizational and social problems that previously existed..http://www.braincells.com/debian/index.cgi/search/item=186 |