Re: Results of the meeting in Helsinki about the Vancouver proposal
On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 14:51:52 -0700, Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
wrote:
>On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 06:22:11PM +0000, W. Borgert wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 07:29:31PM +0200, Adrian von Bidder wrote:
>> > really matters: can we (the Debian project) maintain the port? Thus I
>> > propose we only limit on the number of developers: are there people who
>> > are willing and competent to maintain kernel, boot loader, platform
>> > specific installer bits, libc and toolchain?
>
>> That sounds sensible.
>
>It ignores the fact that every port is a drain on centralized project
>resources, whether it has users or not.
Even a userless port is a service to the community. I have, for
example, a package whose upstream is a keen reader of our buildd logs
to improve on his package's portability.
Greetings
Marc
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