[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] pkgstats: first results

[Aaron Griffin]

On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 12:11 PM, w9ya <w9ya at qrparci.net> wrote:
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> On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 10:23 AM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 10:51 AM, w9ya <w9ya at qrparci.net> wrote:
>> > The TU system was a DIRECT outgrowth of the earlier efforts to find a
>> > place
>> > for users with significant output to be hosted BY the archlinux systems
>>
>> This is about the hundredth time I've seen the "this is how it used to
>> be" argument. It's stupid. I don't care how the TU system used to be.
>> I don't. I care about how the TU system *is*. So let's talk about the
>> present, and not the past please.
>>
>> I don't care about WHY things were instituted. They've grown and
>> changed. If you're not happy with it, then start a new group that fits
>> your ideals better.
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> Aaron; this issue does not concern merely myself. Nor is the history merely
> a personal item. I have *ONLY* spoken about the goals as well as the
> structure that was implemented to achieve these goals in my history
> missives. And OF COURSE that SHOULD BE important as it *IS* the reason
> things are constituted as they are.
>
> As I said in an earlier post, if YOU want to change things, you certainly
> can. No one will stop you. You are the nominal leader.
>
> If you do not like my posting about what reasons are the basis for why
> things are as they are, you can certainly speak out in the manner you have
> immediately above. But short of "kicking me out" that will not matter much
> to me as it is not the purpose for our discussion.
>
> One small piece of advice; if you decide to ask people that disagree with
> you to consider leaving, please be sure to make a list of such people;
> prepared before you do ask them to consider leaving.  Then, and only then,
> do your "asking"  ALL at once. Someone much wiser than myself told me that
> to ask people to leave a small number at a time leaves you with enemies
> within your mists that will choose to worry about their own issues INSTEAD
> of your own. As a leader of men and women you should be aware of that.
>
> Otherwise please be less strident, as it will serve you better.

I never asked anyone to leave. You're putting quite a lot of words in
my mouth. The point is that as the TU system "used to be", there was
no AUR, no community repo, nothing. It was a collection of remote
repos that were collected in a wiki page. Then we got a unified repo
(incoming, and later community), and then everything else was built on
top of it.

Simply put: you can keep talking about how the system "used to be" as
much as you want, but understand that that was BEFORE the AUR and
BEFORE we had so many people doing these things. As with any body of
people, the higher the population, the harder it is to keep tabs on
things. With 5 TUs, it's easy to say "do what you want", but when we
get the numbers we have today, rules need to be used.

Rather than sitting here saying "We never used to have rules! Oh em
gee!", we can do two things: change the existing rules, or start a new
body of people who are ungoverned.

In suggesting another group that is ungoverned in the way you suggest,
I was not saying "leave this one and start your own". I was saying "do
both and compare"