[arch-general] Newbies in Arch [WAS: Suspend seems not to work with nVidia Nouveau driver]

[Peter Lewis]

On Wednesday 04 Jan 2012 16:16:45 Jonathan Vasquez wrote:
> > Never said the entire community was a democracy, I did say thought
> > that like a democracy people vote for the packages to be included.
> > You are right, that the Trusted Users have the final say on what
> > packages get included, I never said otherwise. We obviously can't let
> > everyone in the community have read/write access to the community
> > repo, but the packages that the community members voted for in the AUR,
> > are being looked at by the Trusted Users. That's not a problem to me, and
> > if anything is a sign of a Representative Democracy. In the AUR aspect
> > specifically.
> 
> Hitler was also chosen because of his intelligence and other
> credentials. How does this relate? Just because a person is elected
> because of "perceived" credentials that you can obviously prove that
> they have, does not mean that the person will continue to act in that
> fashion. Hopefully they will.

24+ messages in a thread which itself is a split from its original. Nice to 
see that Godwin's Law [1] still applies on "proper" mailing lists in 2012 ;-)

Happy new year folks!

Pete.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law