On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 10:01:18 +0100 Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> wrote: > Hello, > > it would be nice to extend > http://wiki.debian.org/DerivativesFrontDesk (or the FAQ) with a list > of reasons why one would want to cooperate more closely with Debian > (and also to be fair a list of possible downsides). > > Disadvantages: > - it takes more time to get all your packages properly > accepted/integrated in Debian and as a result * your pace of development and or release will be affected > - you might have to deal with porting problems that you don't care > about (for instance if you're only interested in i386/amd64) > - you can only contribute packages that you commit to maintain and > due to this (some of) your team members should aim to become Debian > maintainer and thus have to agree with Debian's goals & values. > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMaintainer > - packages uploaded to Debian target the unstable distribution, so > there might be discrepancies between the package that you use in > production right now and the packages that you contribute to debian > (although in the majority of the cases there are ways to keep a > single source package that works for both distributions) * trying to work out personality/belief disagreements not exactly a disadvantage in and of itself, but if the maintainer/team has a pre formed opinion its much harder to work with them :) thanks, kk -- Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK7FOSS) http://www.kgoetz.id.au No, I won't join your social networking group
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