On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 08:17:58AM -0700, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
I don't understand why the changes to zone.tab have to be made.
The problem is politics. We are trying to get the tz project out of the political issues of what the boundary between Country X and
While this is understandable (do what you have to do to keep it alive...), I think the fundamental issue here is that reducing the quality of the tz distribution(s) (which were beyond outstanding) for political reasons is very much not what many people think is, or was, the spirit of the previous maintainership. One could (and does :) argue that this is necessary to be able to maintain it ("giving in to the trolls"), or that the reduction in quality is negligent, but the fact remains that the stability is sacrificed for political reasons. And this is, in my book, indeed a big change in maintainership. Personally, I do wonder what other changes will be introduced in the future, given that political pressure is now able to override technical decisions. I wonder if this doesn't set a precedent for future lobbying groups. -- The choice of a Deliantra, the free code+content MORPG -----==- _GNU_ http://www.deliantra.net ----==-- _ generation ---==---(_)__ __ ____ __ Marc Lehmann --==---/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / schmorp@schmorp.de -=====/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\