On Wednesday 04 Jan 2012 16:16:45 Jonathan Vasquez wrote: > > Never said the entire community was a democracy, I did say thought > > that like a democracy people vote for the packages to be included. > > You are right, that the Trusted Users have the final say on what > > packages get included, I never said otherwise. We obviously can't let > > everyone in the community have read/write access to the community > > repo, but the packages that the community members voted for in the AUR, > > are being looked at by the Trusted Users. That's not a problem to me, and > > if anything is a sign of a Representative Democracy. In the AUR aspect > > specifically. > > Hitler was also chosen because of his intelligence and other > credentials. How does this relate? Just because a person is elected > because of "perceived" credentials that you can obviously prove that > they have, does not mean that the person will continue to act in that > fashion. Hopefully they will. 24+ messages in a thread which itself is a split from its original. Nice to see that Godwin's Law [1] still applies on "proper" mailing lists in 2012 ;-) Happy new year folks! Pete. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law
