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Author: Patrick Meade
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Old-Topics: Re: [DNG] Chris Lamb = Good Maintainer (Was: Debian testing drop redis)
Subject: Re: [DNG] Clear communication (Was: Debian testing drop redis)
On 10/28/2017 02:06 AM, John Hughes wrote:
> While keeping your eyes peeled is obviously a good thing please remember
> the downsides of crying wolf when the wolf isn't there.


Clear communication is also a good thing. Perhaps the words

"[D]rops the Debian-specific support for ... in favour of using systemd"

were not the best choice of words to summarize something that was

"not a sysvinit-specific change"

or to communicate that

"this change is completely initsystem agnostic".

In fact, the change itself was actually fine, but a summary like "in
favour of using systemd" will provoke a strong negative reaction on DNG
because those words don't mean "initsystem agnostic" to most DNG readers.

Patrick