Re: Minutes for the Board meeting of February 4th, 2014

[Karen Sandler <karen gnome org>]

On 2014-03-05 10:15, Sindhu S wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 3:44 PM, Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com> 
> wrote:
>
>    * Karen met with the Debian packages for GNOME and asked the
> current state of Debian
>    * The Debian packagers feel demotivated by the current situation
>    * They agreed to blog more on the issue
>    * The Debian packagers asked for a technical position from the
> GNOME project for the use of systemd
>
> I am not able to understand this, why are the packagers feeling
> demotivated? what is the
> current situation? Is there any way I can help?
>
> I am interested because I am preparing for Debian MiniConf 2014 by
> presenting remotely.

I'm sorry that was a clumsy summary of the situation (and probably 
should have been marked private, and the Debian packagers didn't 
actually ask for a position, I suggested it could be useful to maybe do 
a joint statement with other desktops and it turned out from the public 
discussion that followed to be unnecessary). I do think that it's been 
tough though the systemd/upstart discussion and with the default status 
of GNOME being questioned. In any case, I think we as a community could 
be more supportive of our Debian packagers who are doing a fantastic 
job! Thank you!

karen