On Jan 4, 2012 6:26 PM, "Peter Lewis" <plewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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 > Lol Pete. I was actually speaking to Ross about this law when he brought it to my attention. I didn't even know it existed and I normally tend to refrain from bringing Hitler into a conversion. Maybe I should have brought a politician that always promises things, but once elected changes his views and attitudes. Happy new year as well.
