Re: Minutes of an Ubuntu-Debian discussion that happened at Debconf

[Ean Schuessler <ean@brainfood.com>]

Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> I've been working on this specifically. The idea is to create an Ubuntu
> team which would interact by volunteer DD more closely (filing bugs for
> their packages in the BTS for all relevant issues, for example).
> On the other hand, the DD would have to act promptly on those bugs,
> so Ubuntu can get the new Debian package ASAP.
>
> This is detailed in https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DCT and
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DCT/Proposal . However, this hasn't been
> discussed (enough) with others Ubuntu developers, and I won't have time
> to work on this in the next weeks. So, if somebody wants to take this and
> move it forward, ping me by mail/IRC.
>   
One can also make the argument that since Ubuntu paid people to fork 
away from Debian code that they should return the favor and do the brunt 
of the work to reintegrate the useful parts back in.