Re: another reason why requiring NMs to be sponsored is a bad idea
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 12:39:52PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 12:16, Jules Bean wrote:
> > This is an excellent point.
> >
> > Debian suffers, somewhat, from bloat. Against that, we have always
> > accepted packages into the distribution unless there was good reason
> > not to (legal, normally).
> >
> > But encouraging people to package unuseful software is certain not
> > good..
>
> Are you seriously saying that all useful software has already been packaged?
Absolutely not. I apologise if it came across that way.
>
> There are plenty of things on Freshmeat and sourceforge that appear very
> useful, but which I haven't tried out because there is no Debian package and
> I have no time to compile them.
Agreed.
>
> Here's a list of packages that have been requested (so presumably can't be
> considered useless): http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/requested
*nods*
My point was only that it isn't helpful if our process is encouraging
maintainers to package something they don't really find useful, for
the sake of doing something; when their time might be better spent
helping with under-maintained or buggy packages.
Jules
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