Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to")

[Samium Gromoff]

James Blackwell wrote:
> Anselm Lingnau:
> > Personally I would much rather see arch »librified« rather than endowed 
> > with a 
> > VM and programming language all of its own (a Tcl/Tk binding would be 
> > nice). 
> > However, since Tom says what will happen, I just hope that the VM changes 
> > will also indeed accelerate the librification.
> 
> Heh. Tom isn't omnipotent. Arch development has grown to the size that
> Tom can no longer arbitrarily enforce decisions he's made. These days,
> he has to work the same way that everyone else does -- by building
> consensus.

Hey -- i`m pretty sure _he_ decides what goes to _his_ tree, right?

I guess the situation is the same as with Linux -- i.e. as long as you
trust Tom as a project lead -- he decides what goes into the mainline.


regards, Samium Gromoff