Russ Allbery's perspective on the Debian technical committee impasse
LWN has backed off on moment-to-moment coverage of events in Debian's
technical committee because it seems that a moment of relative calm is
called for. But a note posted by committee member Russ Allbery on the
situation is worth reading in its entirety, despite the fact that it's
rather long. "In short, you can certainly disagree with the relative
weights of the various features or drawbacks of any of the init systems.
But I think at the point at which one goes beyond 'I disagree' to 'and
therefore you must be biased,' one has lost the plot. This is a hard
decision with a lot of subjective judgement, and reasonable people can
arrive at opposite conclusions."