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Joey Hess has apparently left Debian after 18 years, stating that the Debian Constitution is leading Debian in "very unhealthy directions".
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(Score: 2) by HiThere on Saturday November 08 2014, @11:54PM
It's my understanding that the vote was taken by a small subcommittee that didn't rightfully have the power to make the decision, but doing it the right (legal? constitutional?) way would have taken over a year, and there was a push to release Jessie with systemd in place.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 09 2014, @04:53AM
If I didn't know you were talking about Debian, you pretty much summed up how the Pluto being demoted as a planet by the IAU "vote" went down.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Sunday November 09 2014, @12:34PM
The TC has the "right" to make interpretations about technical standards.
99% of them are excruciatingly boring yet important. This decision is only interesting because everybody hates systemd but the paid astroturfers and the "desktop people".
Most of the decisions are like a recent-ish one along the lines of can a package in main "recommend" (or something like that) several packages, one of which is in non-free, while not getting kicked into the contrib ghetto for mentioning non-free but not depending on it.
Systemd was rammed down our unwilling throats as a "technical decision" which is kind of stretching the definition.
You are correct, in that its a non-dogfood eating desktop coup, which should have gone to vote.