(changed the Subject to reflect thread drift)

On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 11:53:01PM +0000, Nuno Magalhães wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 10:44 PM, Hendrik Boom <hendrik@???> wrote:
> > until they've been a
> > member
>
> What constitutes Devuan membership?
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Good question.

At the moment, decisions seem to be taken by the Veteran Unix Administrators.
And the appear to be doing a good job, listening to the people on the
mailing list, buf making thir own decisions based on their own needs
and the technical exigencies. Considering that their needs are,
lrgely, the needs of the systemd refugees that define this loose
grouping of users, this is working now.

For the long run, it's not clear what we want. Who should be
represented, or whether there should be any kind of voting or democracy
at all.

This has, historically, been the hard part of having a successful
revolution. Deciding what the new regime should be, rather them
merely being against the old.

Of course, one great difference between this and the revolutions we
have learned about in history books (sometimes written by the winners)
is the the devuan constituency is not defined by geographical
boundries. Debian is being forked. SO can Devuan be forked. It's
this forkability that can make autocratic rule work -- ultimately,
there are no real autocrats.

-- hendrik