[csw-maintainers] Our core values: providing straightforward experience to the user

[Peter Bonivart]

On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 7:18 AM, Philip Brown <phil at bolthole.com> wrote:
> To take debian, as usual: (and do note that it is arguably The Most
> Democratic of all distributions)
> The "ftp master" team, has virtually exclusive power over what gets
> released, and what does not.
>
> Note also, that the ftp masters are not purely bound by debian policy either!
> While debian policy is the usual benchmark,
> "The ftpmasters also have room for discretion in applying the rules
> and may reject packages for other reasons"
>
> While complex issues may end up getting discussed on debian devel (as
> complex issues with us, already get discussed on the maintainers
> list!), it is in the end, up to the debian ftp masters what gets
> released as a package, and what does not.

Your use of "debian ftp masters" imply plural which already there is
an improvement of what we have.

How did they become masters of the debian universe? You call them the
most democratic of all distributions so maybe we could learn something
here since ours is not democratic at all or has your position ever
been up for a vote?

/peter