On 14/10/2019 23.11, Levente Polyak via arch-dev-public wrote:
Q: Why has this been implemented so suddenly? A: That's a good question, while we have discussed this topic multiple times in the past and also issued a concrete proposal to arch-dev- public (plus its follow-up summary) no further steps were taken to get something testable. However, during arch-conf in Berlin, the general enthusiasm and acceleration of the group was so strong, that we have warp-10 driven this task. We acknowledge that this could have been handled more carefully, but in the spirit of arch-conf please excuse us and bear with us. For instance, we could have noticed during a test phase the consequences of not having systemd- sysvcompat. For the time being, we have added it to the base package as the implications were not explicitly desired and discussed beforehand, however that topic will be covered in a follow-up.
This e-mail is probably not needed at all now when the change has already happened. The rationale really should have landed on the main website when the new base package has been released to [testing]. I don't think gathering number of contributors physically can justify total lack of communication with people who did not attend. I understand the good intention and while I agree the change was already extensively discussed, all it needed was just a summary what we're going with in the near future instead of YOLO pushing the metapackage and news post during conference. What I would like to see in this Q&A is if that's how decision process is going to look like from now on or you see what went wrong and won't forget it in 2 or 3 months. Bart