Knud can't
Par jd le vendredi, octobre 27 2006, 11:32 - Debian - Lien permanent
Or Dunc-tank in sorted order. I never wrote about this until now. But today, when I woke up, I had this strange feeling saying "jd, you gotta do something about DT today.". Actually, that was just my f**** alarm clock.
And here I am, and I'm gonna talk to you about the dunc-tank experiment. First it's important to know what a real dunk tank is, because personally I've got no idea until I looked up on Google. So, you see? A dunk tank is a funny game finally. I must admit, if Anthony Towns was seated above the dunk, I would have vote in favor of DT!
Maybe I'm trying to give you some idea for the next DebConf, who knows…
More seriously, after the co-signed mail that Joerg Jaspert just sent, I wanted to say something more.
Some weeks ago, when our DPL (amen) asked us our opinion about that idea, I said "yeah, go ahead". Of course, that was my opinion at this time, and it changed a little. I still don't have objections about people getting paid, because I'm not jealous.
What does that mean? This means that if Debian was only composed of me, Anthony, and two release managers, I wouldn't have any problem. But that's not the case here, I discovered that there is a lots of people in Debian. Maybe should I tell DT people about that, don't you think?
Reality is obviously different, and DT has been launched without a real consensus. We lost valuable people, and I dislike this project for that. We lost time. And we lost money, because time is money (don't beat me).
That's an organised « foutage de gueule [1] ».
But please, remember this is an experiment, so kids: don't do this at home.
Notes
[1] Feel free to translate yourself
Commentaires
Eh, you missed your chance... AJ was actually sitting on top of a dunk tank in January 2004 in Adelaide during Linux Conf Australia... see for example http://lwn.net/Articles/66669/ for a photo.
You could have paid to throw balls and get him into the tank (I feel obligated to mention that the money was going to a charitable organisation, and it was not Debian -- not even computer-related).
Maybe that's where the name comes from, who knows.
Zorglub
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