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What I meant was inviting the best of those Debian devs to start afresh with the same code and create something even better under a new system. You could alway
by todayiamme 16y ago
What I meant was inviting the best of those Debian devs to start afresh with the same code and create something even better under a new system.
You could always make voting tiered and restricted like stack overflow to avoid this... Moreover, if you attract just the right kind of people then the community will start moderating itself and keep the fluff at bay.
Surely, we need to try something like this out.
- cmsj 16y agowhat are you trying to achieve with the voting? and what is the incentive for volunteers to put hours into packaging work if they're being motivated by votes rather than their personal interests?
- todayiamme 16y agoA real democratic community where muscle flexing doesn't work and people can't exclude PHP from a package because it is "impure". If their big idea gets accepted they can collaborate with others to make it. Wouldn't that be a better way to do things?
- cmsj 16y agoIt would seem to me that the outcome would depend a great deal on who was voting.