Proposed udpates policy change

[Ewan Mac Mahon]

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 01:21:45PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 23:11 +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> 
> > Either we (package maintainers) are qualified to make sane decisions
> > about our package or we are not. I don't really see a middle ground
> > here.
> 
> Being qualified to do something does not mean that one always does it
> perfectly. Almost everyone's qualified to drive, yet road traffic
> accidents happen _all the time_. The people who built the LHC were no
> doubt qualified to do yet, yet it turns out to be a bit broken.

The LHC is an interesting analogy; it certainly has problems that can be
picked out with 20:20 hindsight, but there was no way anyone could have
changed the processes in advance that would prevented them coming up in
the first place. When you're trying to build something complicated and
push the boundaries of what's been done before then mistakes are
inevitable. For all its faults the LHC is absolutely the best thing of
its type on the planet. Fear of making mistakes shouldn't stop us
building things like the LHC, and it shouldn't stop us building things
like Fedora either. 

We already know how to build things that are safe, boring, and have been
done before. Someone's got to build the cool new stuff.

Ewan